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@Rudie: no, sadly, I didn't make it to the Nasher. I live between Garner and Smithfield, just inside Johnston County, so trips to the Durham/Chapel Hill area tend to be few and far between. I used to go to 9th St a few times back in the early 90s, b…
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@Bad Thoughts: Your comment reminded me of an article someone wrote more than 15 years ago, when "Raleigh-Durham" started appearing at the top of various corporate "best place to live" rankings: after spending a week or so down here, the article con…
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@Bad Thoughts: I assume you went to the Borders in Cary. Have you been to the one @ the corner of Wake Forest & Six Forks in Raleigh? That location always had more of a music selection, although it's been awhile since I've visited.
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@ScissorMan: God, yes! And if an album did get released in the States, it would seldom be the same as what it was in Britain: for example, I didn't realize that "Life Begins At The Hop" doesn't open Drums&Wires's original (British) release until…
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@Thom: Even knowing next to nothing about how the business of selling music works (particularly today, when it doesn't, except for Merge), I suspect that you're right to some degree: neither the Feelies nor the Mekons had tons of cash or promotion t…
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I had a long comment written out when this %$#@ing keyboard of mine lost it. Anyway, ScissorMan makes exactly the same point, except that I want to broaden it a bit: "indie" as an aesthetic didn't really exist back then, except for someone like Ian …
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BT, did you know Richard Meltzer at all? Just curious.
Spring 1981, X was on Rodney's show promoting Wild Gift. They played several old country records on the air that night, which made me realize that they really didn't belong with the… -
Bad Thoughts, you're right of course: Indie bands from Britain did get perks from having their albums on US majors. And yes, it was hard to find indie records unless you went to the very few stores which carried them (wasn't there a store called Aro…
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Joy Division was an indie band in England; so were the Smiths. Just for reference, very few of the 1st gen punk/new wave bands, either British or American, were: Pistols, Clash, Ramones, etc, all major label on both sides of the Atlantic.
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@Rudie--Love the album, but the true cutie from that scene was Poly Styrene. Go and pull up some YouTube videos of X Ray Spex and tell me she wasn't an absolute doll.
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@Rudie: Is it just my addled memory, or weren't there any young hotties being peddled to us back then? My memory of the late 70s is that all the poster queens were over 30, like Debbie Harry.
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Confession, made reluctantly: I must have been the only hormonally distressed teenager of my era (1st generation punk/new wave/whatever wasn't AOR schlock) who neither liked Blondie nor lusted after Debbie Harry. Come to think of it, even many of t…
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Reminds me of why I had to call Customer Service to cancel my account while it was still on inactive status. In order to to cancel online, I would have to...activate my account!
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"Singularly bored and faintly hostile" would be an accurate description of how "youth culture" has been marketed since the 1950's (if not earlier), would it not?
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Yes. Age 16, summer 1978. Kate Bush, The Kick Inside (the American cover is different from the British one). It was love at first sight; even better, it was love at first listen. Still feel that way.
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Just downloaded & now listening to Let England Shake. Very striking, but she really needs to leave the ultra-high notes to Kate Bush.
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This discussion has made me laugh and made me think. I don't have anything remotely intelligent or belligerent (I haven't felt belligerent about music since the Reagan/Thatcher era) to add, but the joy of this forum is that so many others do.
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Quite possible. I think I cancelled via phone because my account was on hold at the time, and the website wouldn't allow you to cancel an inactive account.
I don't have the emotional response toward eMusic that some of us seem to have, b… -
I assume I just slipped through the cracks. I'm really not complaining. I've considered going back a few times, but always someone on this forum has highlighted yet another bit of imbecility over there which makes me think...nah, not missing anythin…
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It's funny how all this works. I rejoined eMu a year ago after almost two years away (yes, I missed the brouhaha over Sony). After a few months, my interest and my bank account hit a rough patch and I decided to cancel. When I went to do just that, …
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I've usually found PJ Harvey's music more admirable than enjoyable (big exceptions: "Man Sized" and most of Stories From The City). Nothing I heard yesterday when I streamed the album changed that opinion. But, as frustrating as it can be when an ar…
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XTC-English Settlement. Released in a horribly truncated--butchered, really--form Stateside back in '82, it sounds immeasurably better in its full. occasionally overwrought, glory. "JAY-SON AND THE ARRR-GOOOO-NOO-OOOOTTTSSS"
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Katrina, I watched the Tin Drum back in 1982, and I confess that I took a date to the theatre (it played at our school--she might have been required to see the film for a class; can't think why else we would have gone). Yes, I remember the eel scene…
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When the Red Sox finally beat the Yankees in '04, I thought, this is it: I can die happy now. The World Series was anti-climactic.
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Craig: why can't your Twins beat the Yankees in the playoffs?
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If you're new to Fela, I would recommend the Best of the Black President compilation: 13 tracks & 230 minutes of music for $6.49 on eMu.
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@ Germanprof: yes, exactly. The only thing I can add to your post is that I just went to the Inflation Calculator website to see what the cost of a record I purchased in 1977 as a 15-year-old--say, $6.50--would be today, and the answer shocked me: $…
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8" snowfall this morning. Wet, heavy, snow. Lost power for three hours. Much cursing as I hadn't the smarts to get up and make coffee as soon as the lights started to flicker.
Great Xmas present: a CD/DVD burner. Now I can catch up with… -
Amen and Happy Holidays to all...
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A few personal roots-era reggae favorites:
Two Sevens Clash-Culture
Right Time-The Mighty Diamonds
The Same Song-Israel Vibrations
Extra Classic-Gregory Isaacs
and everything by Linton Kwesi Johnson. Every…