Shir, what do you want to know more about? There are probably people who know more about the music of the Grunge scene; everything I know is from being a Seattle native who went to a lot of clubs and shows. I reflexively roll my eyes at Pearl Jam because I still feel that Mother Love Bone was a better band. (Damn you, Andy.)

Har. Shir's link led to me re-reading a whole bunch, and led to me tagging Plei (hope you don't mind, doll): "One stupid concert with MCR, and POW! I was suddenly 20 years younger and reading shit on Buzznet. It was AWESOME."

Ohhhhhh, Mother Love Bone. digs through CDs

Humm. I'm bad when it comes to asking questions, especially when all I have is fuzzy ponders in my mind.

I guess I just want to hear (read) your stories. I'm not after any gossip or yellowish tidbits. I want to read about your experiences: for example, I can get the sexist vibes from the music, but until I read what you wrote about it I couldn't pin down the term myself (and yes, it was sexist, otherwise we wouldn't get Riot Grrrl*). I was way too young to experience it in real time and fell in love with The Afghan Whigs much, much later. And you know, even if I were old enough, the whole thing happening 2-3 continents away probably wouldn't have helped either (I'm sure there's at least one grammar mistake in this paragraph).

(*This is something I actually have a lot more to write about, the "men took the natural victim place from us, we'll do something else, more extreme now" thing. Happened in 1920s Israeli poetry, I had a class about it, and now can identify the pattern in so, so many other levels of art now. I'm quite fascinated about it, but it's a whole other subject).

Delightful new video from the New Pornographers: [link]

My favorite bit comes with about 1:25 left in the song. See if you can spot why...

Delightful new video from the New Pornographers: [link]

Thank god for the Unicorn. I could see Colbert showing this what with the ursine villainy.

Kid Congo reminisces about his earl days in the Cramps:

The Cramps were a very spontaneous type of band live. It was all about creating an atmosphere of the wildest thing possible. Lux was the ringleader of all of that and Ivy held it down. They were some wild shows - especially the European shows. And it was in the era when (especially in the UK) where people spit on you if they liked you and so we were often covered in gob. We were really not going to back down…we were not the backing down type of band. They were some crazy magic voodoo shows and Lux did incredible things on stage that were so dangerous and crazy, from jumping off of speaker stacks, swinging a microphone with the lead so long that you thought he was going to decapitate you - but he never did. He would tie my legs together with the mic cord and drag me around the stage while I was still playing - during "Surfin' Bird" usually.

Fights would often erupt in the audience, girls clothes came off, and then Lux would be wearing them… and the audience would pull Lux in the audience and Nick would jump from behind his drum kit and jump in the fray. It was pretty wild. If something bad was happening, Ivy would snap her fingers and point and we’d have to go beat someone up. It was like being in a gang - like a juvenile delinquent band… and it was great! It was my juvenile delinquent fantasy come true.

"Ivy would snap her fingers and point and we'd have to go beat someone up."

I got to see the Cramps once, which was great music (even if I still have hearing loss) and had the most wonderful spontaneous cheering moment (totally sports-fan-over-the-top yelling) when Ivy decked a guy who climbed up on the stage.

And they went on playing as the stagehands hustled him off.

Entertainment Weekly has as list of the best 25 movie soundtracks since 1983. [link]

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Does anyone have Hall and Oates' Family man and/or John Mellencamp's Ghost Towns along the highway they would be able to send me?

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Aw! So much love for #1.