1992 was a good year.

It really was. Boyz II Men was really the only big boy band and they weren't half bad. I remember listening to Nirvana for the first time when I was up at a college party in Lawrence that fall and then (perfect memory of this - even remember what I was wearing and that I was fixing myself a microwave quesadilla) watching the video for Teen Spirit in my kitchen a few weeks later.

Gish was the album we listened to everyday. And Mudhoney and Screaming Trees. And I saw Pearl Jam live that spring in front of the biggest crowd they had ever played in front of. Ooh and Jellyfish opening for the Black Crowes was fun. Check Your Head came out that summer. It was the first album I ever bought on CD. Oh - and I remember lining up for the midnight release of Automatic for the People (but that was in college, we were listening to Out of Time still my senior year). Good times - well, sorta.

Something which previously had only been attemped with The Beatles and, I think, Elvis.

There was a station in Florida that did it with Zeppelin, I am pretty sure.

Three in a row?

Did y'all know that wikipedia has entries for each year in music? 1992: [link]

Just back from Sufjan Stevens live at the Somerville Theater. Go See Him! [link] He's got a seven piece band with everyone switching off on instruments ranging from guitar to banjo to trombone to xylophone. Great vocal harmonies. Great arrangements. They wore matching orange and blue "I" cheerleader outfits and occasionally broke into cheers for various Illinois towns like Peoria, Jacksonville and Metropolis. The sound was amazing, but it was a local guy doing the mix so I don't know that the show in your town will sound as good.

There were two songs in particular that I need to ID. The first song of the set listed (nearly?) all the 50 states. Later, he did a twisted version of the Star Spangled Banner. Completely different melody but the same lyrics... up until the "rockets red glare" bridge where the lyrics wandered off into some disturbing imagery of blood on the hands and on the flag. I didn't catch them all which is one of the reasons I want to know if it's been recorded. Anyone? Bueller?

Don't know about the songs you mentioned Jon, other than I can tell you they are not on Seven Swans or Michigan or Sun Came or Enjoy Your Rabbit to my knowledge so they are probably not recorded. I have heard he does the national anthem live but I've never seen it mentioned as available to buy.

In googling for more info I found this interview from 2001-ish: [link] where he talks about lots of stuff including how much he hates Wilco, Jim O'Rourke and the Sea and Cake (due to overproduction I guess). Oh well.

I'm glad he was so good live - I am sad to miss him due to Winfield but I'm sure he'll be back around.

I might groove to the Humpty Dance for a minute or two. But I'd feel dirty after.

overwhelming intellectual minusculosity

This gave me the mother of spit-takes, JZ. I mean, I'm honored that you think I'm smart, but, y'know, I'm not even approaching the same intellectual weight class as most of the people on this thread, let alone the board as a whole. I just figured that y'all put up with me for that whole "watch the gibbering monkey fumble at the fly on his purple monkeypants" vibe. By the by, you're married to the man for whom the phrase "musically omnivorous" was invented. I'm such an intolerant git that I only eat at very specific troughs, some of which I'm far too embarrassed to ever share with real, live human beings. I mean, this whole Jandek-love thing is embarrassingly close to a penchant for public masturbation.

"Minusculosity" is an awesome word, by the by. I got a Viagra spam this morning from "Roosevelt Smallwood," which is now my reigning favorite spammer name ever. I imagine that his pitch, had I read it, would have used "minusculosity" in deeply sympathetic terms.

....aaaand everything I just said also was about sex. That's more embarrassing than Jandek-love. All I can say in my defense is "purple monkeypants" and "I've apparently had one too many beers tonight."

I've apparently had one too many beers tonight.

My brotha!

And with that I say g'night. (Oh and also - Hec's Indie Rock Karaoke mix is the bomb dot com.)

At one point, when a station here in Salt Lake was in between formats, they played nothing but Louie Louie. The Kingsmen version. For about 3 weeks straight.

Also, in, I believe, 1990, when we were getting a new "alternative" station, they started out their first week playing nothing but one band per day. I believe they did a Depeche Mode Day, a Cure day, a U2 day, an REM day, an Oingo Boingo day . . . . I don't remember the others. No Bowie Day, tho.

For 1986:

10. Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer
15. West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys (although it actually was first released in, what, '82?)
19. Kiss, Prince and The Revolution
22. Holding Back The Years, Simply Red
28. Rock Me Amadeus, Falco
37. Something About You, Level 42
44. No One Is To Blame, Howard Jones
72. Small Town, John Cougar Mellencamp
73. Tarzan Boy, Baltimora
77. Rumors, Timex Social Club

How old is "Gradtuated High School"? 1990 I was 17 so I'll take that.:

5. Vogue, Madonna 13. Pump Up The Jam, Technotronic 46. Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice 56. U Can't Touch This, M.C. Hammer 81. Everybody Everybody, Black Box

I really don't like Pelecanos, BTW, I think he's like a literary version of Tarantino without the breathtaking stylistic flourishes that make QT so great. I sort of thought this based on his books, but his episode in S1 of The Wire (the penultimate one where Wallace gets got was so catastrophically bad that it brought it into sharp relief; his lame pop references and were shoehorned into a cliched and melodramatic plot that switched the show's usual icy naturalism for trad Hollywood story beats ( Samuels' pep talk to McNulty, D confonting Stringer about Wallace, the final "Catch You Later" line ) and shameless sentimentality.

Sufjan Stevens doing the Star Spangled Banner at the South Street Seaport in NYC: [link]