Where is the love for.... POSSUM DIXON?

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I just bought their s/t on CD for $1.99 to replace my old cassette copy. Jittery, nervous, declamatory and propulsive new wave, not a bad track on it. The single ("Watch that girl destroy me") is possibly the weakest song. Admittedly, later albums are a steep falloff. But this is classic. I implore you all to buy one of the many inexplicably discarded copies in our nation's used record stores.

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Heheh, I recently relistened to said debut and also a promo EP with their cover of "The Days of Wine and Roses" on it. Saw 'em live at UCI in 1994 as well. It is a pretty cool album but I admit it never sticks with me after I listen to it, it's like I have to listen to it again to realize, "Oh yeah, good stuff!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm! I have been thinking of "Watch That Girl Destroy Me" a lot lately since my band wrote a song that always reminds me, in the opening riff, of that song. But no one else in the band even remembers it at all!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to have some CD sampler that had their cover of "The Days of Wine and Roses" on it, which I didn't realize was a cover, but yeah, that one was pretty good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved "Emergency's About to End" (on the....er....soundtrack to Showgirls...which also featured a Killing Joke track unavailable elsehwere). Never heard anything else by'em, but I liked the nervous, jerky sound.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Their second album, Star Maps, is just as good as the first. "Go West" IMHO is their best song. Silver Lake love all around.

― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, wow, "Emergency's About to End" -- I totally forgot about that song. A friend of mine put that on a mix tape for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I had Star Maps; thought it was pretty bad. I had a Spanish (as in, the subject not the nationality) teacher in high school who dug 'em, though.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, now you guys are convincing me to go back and listen to Star Maps again! Now that I think of it, I really like "Radio Comets" from that record.

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Guayaquil, post what you think about Star Maps after you listen to it. There are some great Modern Lover-style moments on that album!

― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob Zabrecky does a cool magic act.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Star Maps is OK, but only has two or three really good songs.

Am I the only one who thinks that the Yummy Fur sounds a lot like them?

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

Bummer news here -- apparently Celso Chavez has passed, according to Brad Laner.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

Cause was apparently pneumonia.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

ugh, that's a bummer. for a little while they were opening pretty much every show i saw in los angeles as a teen.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

Near inescapable for the mid-nineties, for sure!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

RIP. Saw these guys at a festival in the mid 90s in Atlanta, dug their set a lot, then saw their album used for sale & thought about buying it until my friend counseled me "dude, they were good that day but you'll regret buying the album".

― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

ha, my friend counseled me in the other direction: "dude, you gotta hear them, these guys are the new Weezer!"
which was not a good thing to say to me. not that they sounded like weezer really.
they were good when I saw 'em!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

xpost -- Eh, a little unfair. Like I say near the start of the thread, it's more that you forget how good that first album is until you hear it again, then you forget once more after it.

This is pretty cool, one of a clutch of clips on YouTube -- them doing a cover of "Sex Beat" along with Ward Dotson from a backyard performance in 1997. Given they did "The Days of Wine and Roses" it makes perfect sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyYZuptXtJw

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Was listening to the ever-great "Star Maps" today and, with reunion mania continuing unabated, did a quick check on Possum Dixon's status only to discover the sad news of three years ago :(

― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:53 (ten years ago)

I was basically a child when I started listening to them and hence not always the most discerning, but I still enjoy all their albums a lot.

― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:54 (ten years ago)

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