Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
How are we defining obscure? I have tapes of local bands that never made it to the label level
Which just reminds me that I MUST ransack all the boxes at my parents' and find my copy of the original Alice n' Chains demo, from back when they were convinced that "Lip Lock Rock" was going to be their ticket to the bigtime.
I'm trying to think of what I've got that really qualifies as obscure.
I'm wearing a "Vivians" t-shirt right now! (AIFG!)
Music is beginning to sound like "blah, blah, Ginger," again. This bums me out, but I suspect it's my fault.
So, am I overreacting when I call this guy the tooliest tool who's ever been compared to a socket wrench?
Not hardly. He needs a healthy whack of the get-over-yourself stick.
I don't think I have anything truly obscure. I doubt I own anything anyone else who went to shows in D.C. in the mid-90's doesn't have, and most of my peers have much better collections of Dischordania and related.
There's many ways to get to the obscure stuff.
I have (ok, compilation) CDs by both the Classics and the Classics IV.
The problem with me and obscure is that it's quickly not obscure. I bought the first Be Good Tanyas album in March 2001 (in Vancouver), because I saw a throwaway bit about them on CBC. About a year later, the NPR set discovered them.
The best I can offer is some CDs by South Carolina bands a friend of mine sent me in exchange for an OOP Pierce Pettis album.
My problem with obscure is that all of my obscure stuff is apparently in the wrong genre to "count" as obscure. (I tend towards folk and filk in my "music few have heard of besides me" and every discussion I've seen about obscure stuff talks about rock) Ah, well...
Hey, Corwood - I'm just reading your big Blueberry Boat thing on the last High Hat - Killick (which you theorise as a nickname in Quay Cur) is the name of one of the sailors in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey books. Which fits in context.
Fantastic, Jim! Great catch! Having only seen Master & Commander, was he Aubrey's steward?
I'm going to see Jandek live on Sunday! My friend who's going with me called last night to confess that she finds Jandek a little bit funny. "Does he take himself seriously?," she asked me. I told her that the good thing about ciphers is that you can interpret them however you see fit. I certainly think Jandek has poked fun at himself quite a few times over the years, but I also think that he takes himself seriously. Maybe I'm projecting, but I think you can be 100% committed to your art, however absurd, and still have the ironic distance to know that it's silly.