I went through two whole columns today. Two down, 25 more to go.
Artist: Tall Dwarfs
Album: Hello Cruel World
Label: Flying Nun; 1987
Artist: Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston
Album: Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair
Label: 50,00... Watts Records; 1989
Artist: Friends of Ghosts
Album: Realm of the Senses
Label: C'est la Mort Records; 1987
Artist: Deacon Blue
Album: Suffering/Church
Label: Unreleased, 1988
Artist: Jackie DeShannon
Album: Your Baby is a Lady
Label: Atlantic, 1974
Artist:Pere Ubu
Album:We Have the Techonology
Label: Restless Records; 1988
Artist: Jet Black Berries
Album: Desperate Fires
Label: Pink Dust Records; 1986
Artist: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Album: Kooler Than Jesus
Label: Spurburn; 1989
Artist: Depeche Mode
Album: Personal Jesus
Label: Sire; 1989
Artist: The Chesterfield Kings
Album: Stop!
Label:Mirror Records; 1985
Artist: My Dad is Dead
Album: The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get
Label: Homestead Records, 1989
Artist: The Fall
Album: 458489 A Sides
Label: Beggars Banquet; 1990
Artist: Dinosaur Jr.
Album:Little Fury Things
Label:SST; 1987
Artist: Downy Mildew
Album: Mincing Steps
Label: Texas Hotel; 1988
Artist: Eek A Mouse
Album: U-Need
Label: Island Records; 1991
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Charlie Manson Street
Label: M.D. Records; 1989
Artist: The Feelies
Album: Paint It Black 12" Single
Label: Stationary Music; 1980
Artist: Dada
Album: Right Men Tell Lies
Label: A Major Recording Label; 1988
Music inspired by American politics in 1988 is boring. Inserts that have pictures of missiles and a globe in a trash can are boring. College is so boring.
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That Downy Mildew album was one I bought on cassette for 99 cents. I remember that the song "Floorboard" (I think it was called) was rather bewitching....and plenty good fodder for a goth band looking for an obscure cover song.
I don't think I've thought about that record until today. Funny how it all comes back with one mention, though.
Rick I think you just have an amazing memory. Mine doesn't retrieve quite as well as yours.
So, the other thing that came flooding back about Downy Mildew is that I saw a picture of them, and their singer Jenny Homer looked absolutely like my kinda lady. To hear her pining vocals and poetic lyrics couched in this sorta hippy-dippy band, I had some kinda idea in my head about what kinda lover she'd be, and how it'd probably be pretty great and wild in a more fancy-free, deeply emotional way.
What I didn't know 'til I did a little research after you mentioned them a couple weeks back is that Jenny Homer also sang for the industrial-rock band Braindead Soundmachine. If I knew that then, I don't know the fantasy woulda been different, but it would. Maybe I'd just be confused and driven back to Julia Cafritz.
You're a freak in a fancy-free, deeply emotional way.
you read this? http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/09/interview_julia_1.php
I saw Pussy Galore play in an apartment in Davis, CA, the year that I bought that Downy Mildew tape, and the reasons I'd run away from my Julia fantasies were....well, because I was scared of her!
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