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orange:
don't know Belltower, but i tend to remember stuff by what colour the sleeve is.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:19:38 pm)
Cushca:
I think that I would go out of my way to avoid a band called Belltower.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:20:22 pm)
Heruka:
Never seen DN live. Cat Power was here over the summer. Shame I was on a differnt coast. Helsinki. I own a summer cottage there. They have nice apples.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:20:26 pm)
orange:
The new Damien Jurado is amazing. Harrowing and bleak, but absolutely marvelous.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:20:37 pm)
Cushca:
You know, I heard exactly the same review for the new Steps album.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:21:13 pm)
Heruka:
Steve Kilbey has a live album out. Acoustic and Intimate I believe. Must purchase it soon.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:21:23 pm)
orange:
Luna live are fantastic. Dual guitar onslaughts are always good, just listen to Robyn & Kimberley.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:21:52 pm)
Myk Murphy:
shoe-gazing jangling-swirling guitars, gorgeous female vocal and male vocal sounding a lot like thurston-sonic youth. black and green album cover, i'm guessing, judging from the disc. way out of print, but i burned a cd of it from my friend's beat-up cd.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:22:30 pm)
Cushca:
Yes.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:22:32 pm)
Heruka:
Luna is good. Quite good. I prefer something a bit slower in my old age.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:22:40 pm)
Cushca:
Yes you did.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:22:49 pm)
Myk Murphy:
yeah, H, i read about the kilbey release. there's a promo mp3 you can download to get a feel for it. luna is a fine band. it's hard to imagine how long they've been at it. i recall spinning them several times back in the glorious early 90s.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:24:10 pm)
Cushca:
They were glorious?
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:25:53 pm)
Myk Murphy:
yes. glorious. granted, you were still wearing a school uniform, but for some of us it was very nice.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:26:46 pm)
:
i believe Damien Jurado is in Steps. The song about the dead guy frozen to his car steering wheel was dropped from their last album though, don't know why
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:29:18 pm)
Heruka:
They early '90s. Back when men were men. And music meant something more than calling women "bitches" and being a cheap advertisement for clothing. Clapton and B.B. king's Riding With the King is really good. I was never a big Clapton man either.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:30:14 pm)
orange:
things keep crashing
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:30:40 pm)
Myk Murphy:
yeah, H, things ended right around that time. tragedy after tragedy as big business crushed or bought college/indie radio stations. in DC, WHFS is now a vulgar thing.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:33:30 pm)
orange:
The Grand Drive album is mighty fine too
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:35:00 pm)
orange:
it's raining again, i feel like Supertramp
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:35:44 pm)
and silence:
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:36:56 pm)
Heruka:
Nirvana happened. Bad. I've met some youngster 19yo who thinks he listens to 'alternative' music. He's a big Creed fan. The 90's crushed my childhood. Everything I thought was pure has been tainted. It was bound to hapen. I think the ultimate insult is being able to buy Doc Martins at Dillards. Oh well.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:38:50 pm)
Myk Murphy:
heh heh, docs at dillards. yup, that's horrible.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:48:13 pm)
orange:
Good for Nirvana, it got people into music again.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:50:02 pm)
Myk Murphy:
yeah, nirvana was anything but bad news. the bad news came when shitty bands like Helmet could actually get a good record deal, no questions asked. the mediocre wave of crap that came with the "latest thing".
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:52:31 pm)
orange:
there's always mediocre. Same with 'shoegazing' some of those bands were god-awful, yet they got signed. The tragedy is that some of the good bands went to the wall without recognition.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:53:53 pm)
Myk Murphy:
yeah, mediocre is here to stay, but in the US we had a thriving REAL alternative/progressive scene. like nero, violin in hand, we watched big business and frat boys burn our city. the Offspring is actually considered acceptable music in the new Rome.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:56:14 pm)
Myk Murphy:
we had to import most of our shoegazers. and, like the belltower, our domestic shoegazers left us.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:57:47 pm)
orange:
the Offspring fans might discover the Vandals though and that can only be good. That sort of thing doesn't happen though. Slipknot will be big, while talented bands of their ilk will flounder.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:58:00 pm)
orange:
Americans are too confrontational to be shoegazers
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 1:58:36 pm)
Heruka:
Nirvana killed the alternative scene. Once alternative became mainstream(which is an oxymoron) the scene seemingly ceased to simply exist. Perhaps its time had ended. It's still there, but in shambles. The radio stations(as Myk had commented earlier) the mags(A.P.) even 120 minutes is gone. They just changed everything. The true Alternative music stopped selling. To be honest though. I wasn't into music back in the mid-90's. Found other things to keep me occupied. That's the way it seems to have happened.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 2:02:26 pm)
Heruka:
Er, yeah. What Myk said.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 2:03:08 pm)
Myk Murphy:
i agree with that, mostly. however, there's always a minority of our youth who identify with it. as for offspring fans, the US fans won't discover anything except what records are on sale at Wal-Mart.
(Wed Nov 29, 2000 - 2:04:49 pm)