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― Surmounter, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
The debut Throwing Muses album was released 21 years ago this week in the UK on 4ad.
― djmartian, Monday, 27 August 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Really? I feel so old....
The first TM song I ever heard was 'Rabbit's Dying' on 6UVS-FM (as it was called then) in Perth, Western Australia. Yes, it is/was a university station.
I recall buying the LP the very next day.
― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 27 August 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
The first thing I heard was a demo tape with an early, creepy version of "Stand Up" that got circulated around Rhode Island.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 27 August 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I just digitized my early 4AD vinyl this weekend. Still classic.
― sleeve, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Classic. Without a doubt.
I prefer Tanya to Kristin, probably because in a throw-down i think she'd fight dirty; biting, scratching, knee's to the kootch - you know, whatever it takes. The partnership between Ms. Donelly and Ms. Deal, however, was a great match, and today i'll listen to that first Breeders album even before something as good as "Ramona".
― christoff, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
The Real Ramona and University are probably my least favourite of the Muses albums I own, despite the insane amount of love they get here. I think they're a touch too shiny sounding, especially University. House Tornado is classic from start to finish, it has a sort of raw countryish sound to it. I should probably hear the debut before I make any judgements on a best album though.
Tanya Donelly's songs are bright spots on the albums, they turn up just when you want a bit of variety. But Throwing Muses really is Kristin's band - it's the force of her personality that carries them.
Dave Narcizo's drumming is faultless as well. It's criminal how little recognition they get, honestly.
― verhexen, Monday, 27 August 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
FACT: "Not Too Soon" sounds as absolutely perfect today as it did in 1991.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 28 January 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
It sure does! That whole album, actually.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 January 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Because I'm such a blogwhore, do clicketh here!
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The odd thing about "Not Too Soon" is that it was one of the Muses' earliest songs — they were playing it live long before the debut came out — and yet it didn't see the light of day until album #4.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fish" blew my mind when I first heard it in 1987ish, and that still sounds just as good now, too.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yea that's one of my favorite songs on the album now. after like alfred pointed out to me how good it was last year. really wonderful. it has an old-timey girl group thing about it too, great twist.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Just found this link — "Not Too Soon" was performed live on a University of Rhode Island radio show way back in 1985. I remember taping this show myself.
http://www.throwingmusic.com/jive/thread.jspa;jsessionid=ABD334DD295D68E646FE8682488F55F2?messageID=5337ᓙ
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck. Try again. http://www.throwingmusic.com/jive/thread.jspa;jsessionid=ABD334DD295D68E646FE8682488F55F2?messageID=5337ᓙ
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Never mind.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm curious to know if anyone else has a certain Throwing Muses song or songs that will come into their head now and again for some unknown reason. For me the main one is "And A She-Wolf After The War". Although I'm also haunted by "Walking In The Dark", "You Cage"...and that lyric from something on House Tornado when she says "keep walking/If I did the same thing/Five hundred times/could you see it in the dark?"
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe I wrote this almost a year ago to the day:
I'm not really sure the Muses are something I feel comfortable pulling out now, they seem tied up with all this teenager angst for me, not a pleasant place to revisit.
-- Bimble, Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
to answer your first question, tar kissers comes into my head a lot. or snake off uni.
i can't believe you said that either!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
it must be some other thread where scott proposes that their debut is the best record ever made by a band whose members were all in their teens at the time. I think he's right.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Goodness, were they really all in their teens or are you shitting me?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The duet with Bob Mould on Red Heaven, "Dio", pops into my head every once in a while. Deeeeee-oooooooo.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
bimble yes as far as I know they were all under 20, Hersh was 18.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I think that is right, ya.
I used to quite often get "I have to sleep/tangled in my familys hair" stuck in my head unbidden from Walking in the Dark. And "Fish" pops into my head now and then, esp if I've been counting something, as I'll start going "one plus two plus three plus four plus five plus six plus six plus six"
― Trayce, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
There is not one band on this planet that could make a record that sounds like House Tornado.
Are there any comtemporary bands that could be compared to early TM?
― Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.tobysnax.com/shop/
― Thomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
bimble yes as far as I know they were all under 20, Hersh was 18. Yeah, they were all young ’uns. I remember running into David Narcizo at a club in Newport — this was after the debut came out — and offering to buy him a drink. He reminded me that he wasn't yet of age.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone heard this btw : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakuna - any good?
― Thomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
DIZZY!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link