My Top 2000 Songs #1015: Read About Seymour

Like several other early post-punk innovators (see, e.g., Pere Ubu, Mission of Burma, P.I.L.), I tend to find UK act Swell Maps a little too challenging for extended listening. (I'm much more partial to the solo work from late Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks, who offered lovely piano-based balladry far removed from his work with the band.) 

Which, as with the others, doesn't mean they don't have a few numbers I absolutely treasure. 1978's debut single "Read About Seymour" is unusually straightforwa...