Goo: now as I was young & easy under Lee’s guitar held above the crowd in a grimy Denver club
Evol: their first expressway to my skull
Sister & Daydream Nation: Hamlet or King Lear? Let It Bleed or Exile on Main St? Breathless or Vivre sa vie? These two records changed my life
Washing Machine: even Joshua Clover liked “The Diamond Sea”
Rather Ripped: the last tour I saw
A Thousand Leaves: Sonic Dead
Experimental Jet Set: better than I thought at the time
Murray Street: confusing at first, but it lingers
Dirty: clean. “Yeah the President sucks!”
Sonic Youth albums, ranked worst to best:
NYC Ghosts: sub-McClure Beat poetry
Confusion Is Sex: this was in the tape deck when I almost wrecked my car on I-5 as a teen
Bad Moon Rising: great title, great cover, OK record
Sonic Nurse: some good stuff
The Eternal: Led Zeppelin (complimentary)
New header courtesy of @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social. Was hugely flattered The Ends of the World played some role in inspiring maybe the most succinct account of why geology is soul-altering
wow, this is awesome. i am flattered in return. & yes, that book is a perspective-transformer
every day until the first day of spring i will post one great lost song from the '90s. today's entry stayed in the worst cd player i've ever owned for over a month in 1996
oh you're gonna want some popcorn for this
love it, but repeater will always be my fave
bro there are only 2 days till Daylight Saving Time
the ending of a poem by my student Ndioro Gueye (posted with her permission):
Rereading Bataille for a paper & remembering the crazy French roommate I had in my 20s. I woke up one morning to find a note on the kitchen table—"Returned to France. This is for you"—beneath which was a copy of Bataille's Visions of Excess that I still have
the ending of a poem by my student Ndioro Gueye (posted with her permission):
Rereading Bataille for a paper & remembering the crazy French roommate I had in my 20s. I woke up one morning to find a note on the kitchen table—"Returned to France. This is for you"—beneath which was a copy of Bataille's Visions of Excess that I still have
sometimes I am struck by some arrangement of quotidian objects & wish I knew how to take better pictures
Gang Starr aren’t forgotten, but this track seems to fly beneath radar. I can still recite it like a poem
only 3 days till Daylight Saving Time! start here to catch up with the twists & turns of the thread 👇
sometimes I am struck by some arrangement of quotidian objects & wish I knew how to take better pictures
I got one of these from Annie Ernaux
ironic since when it is like this it’s usually because of the u.s.
it makes no sense that Sarge has been so neglected while Sleater-Kinney & others working the same general soundscape remain beloved. I listened to this album one million times in 1998. Elmore went on to form the Reputation after ditching Sarge for law school
4 days till Daylight Saving Time
after this, i'll post one a day. this cranes track was a minor hit, but i haven't heard it in public since the '90s. riyl mbv, the cure, cocteau twins
especially when he changes the lyric to "just a slave like one of us"
Prince will never be forgotten, but this perfect Joan Osborne cover was buried on the 1996 3-disc salmagundi Emancipation
criteria are, like, never heard it on an episode of yellowjackets or euphoria or industry
i will be posting great forgotten songs from the '90s as the spring emerges from her den
We’re inside
the thing, with all the stuff. The earth floats
above its body on the operating table
in geosynchronous orbit.
5 days till Daylight Saving Time
