This is "My Mother The War" for me, too. Love the New Order-y bass, the washes of noise guitar and Natalie's a match for early Stipe in the inscrutable mumblings department. I like plenty of their later stuff fine, but once Joe Boyd decided they were Fairport Convention and then Peter Asher started glossing things up even further, I began to lose interest. Still really love her voice.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
it is not good imo
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Here are fifteen tracks, boring in a weird way or weirdly boring.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
what for?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
man this popped up on my shuffle today and it was possible to remember why they created such a stir in the college rock world at one point:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Be784nT5k
― campreverb, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
“These Are Days” is my favorite 10,000 Maniacs song (and I was heavily into this band as a teen, deep into all their shit).That song — their big, late-career “hit” — is kind of an arrestingly perfect single to me, even now.
― plant a twee or die (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
I was deep into that “Verdi Cries” and “Poor De Cherico” shit, Holmes!
― plant a twee or die (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
“Verdi Cries” is a gorgeous song.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
I don't consider myself THAT big a fan, but I can name at least a dozen songs which haven't even been mentioned here that I absolutely adore.
But Jezebel wins (that whole album is gorgeous)
― itsabot! (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
(Blind Man's Zoo was my very first CD)
― itsabot! (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
I love "These Are Days."
― banjoboy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
"Scorpio Rising" would absolutely destroy on any mixtape of '80s rock tracks... what a song!
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
(this song "Cotton Alley," which I didn't even remember, is also casually better than 99.999% of extant songs)
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link