Music which represents a kind of cultural malaise that set in in 1988, just before my high school years, sparked by the recent acquisition of My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything. Kevin Shields and crew simply could do no wrong. I am very familiar with Loveless but had never listened to the combo's first album. I've wasted so much time...
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| My Bloody Valentine |
The tunes played tonight tried to capture a feeling surrounding a kind of music in the late eighties and early nineties. Not a good time, unless you were in Eastern Europe. Reagan and Thatcher were going out, but what was coming in? We didn't know the cold war was going to end and there was a general feeling of blah and "so what"? I guess I am talking about Gen X. Musically, I think this late new wave/post punk, self-indulgent faux darkness ended with the cold war. Music fuelled by cafeine an nicotine instead of the coke of the 80's, booze of the 70's or acid of the 60's.
C & C Music factory and Black Box filled our high school cafetorium during dances. I was all over the place. I remember buying Sinead O'Connor and Maestro Fresh Wes at the same time at the Bayshore Sam's. I also luckily picked up a cassette called Automatic by The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The Robot News this week is, again, very depressing and serious. I promise more fun robots next week.
The final track, from the Grateful Dead's 1971 live album was, I hope, sufficiently soothing after the angst of this broadcast.
The Play List
Track - Song - Album
Sonic Youth - The Burning Spear (Live)- Sonic Youth
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| Tackhead |
My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss - Isn't Anything
The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies - Darklands
Tackhead - Body to Burn - Friendly As a Hand Grenade
Tackhead - Demolition House - Friendly As a Hand Grenade
Tackhead - Free South Africa - Friendly As a Hand Grenade
Robot News:
Song for New Moms
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| ESG |
Thomas Dolby - Screen Kiss - This Flat Earth
Grapes of Wrath - Now and Again - Blind
Kate Bush - Deeper Understanding
ESG -Moody - Come Away with ESG
Pixies - Crakity Jones - Doolitle
Grateful Dead - Wharf Rat - Grateful Dead [Skull & Roses]
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