waxing nostalgic, Part II - V
I hope you folks enjoyed Part I of my little trip down musical memory lane yesterday. Today I’ll finish it off with Part II and a few more selections from my past.
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Head On (256 kbps)
Growing up on the beach and having a surfer dad, I eventually had a surf-rock phase as well. For years I thought Head On was by The Pixies. Turns out The Pixies covered it Head On in 1991, but the original was by The Jesus and Mary Chain. It took me awhile to get into this version, and wrap my head around my years of musical stupidity. Only good came of it though, as my accidental discovery led me deep into the world of The Jesus and Mary Chain. To this day they remain one of my all-time favorite bands. It was really a toss-up between posting this track and Half Way to Crazy. You really should own and love the entirety of Automatic, one of my top 10 albums, for life.
Suicide – Keep Your Dreams (192 kbps)
Another film that left a huge impression on me during this era was Basquiat. It led me to think I wanted to major in film—a fleeting interest I’m glad in retrospect I abandoned. It also led me to the beginning of a long-standing obsession with Post Punk, No Wave and the humble beginnings of street art in a gallery setting. Somewhere along the way I came across Suicide. I remember thinking I was too cool because I knew this band that was seminal, but unheard of by my peers. Suicide was so far ahead of their time that it’s surreal. Released in the late 70s, Dream Baby Dream is one of the more melodic Suicide tracks (i.e. more singing, less howling and screeching) and an absolutely timeless, moody masterpiece. To say bands like Hearts Revolution and Crystal Castles have culled some of their reference material from Suicide is stating the obvious.
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Robert Palmer’s Johnny and Mary is one of those tracks that you run across late at night in a bar jukebox when the entire night has been shit and you’re starting to question everything in your life. This is one of those songs that inevitably reminds you of some specific person…and on the night when everything else sucks, that person is the exact thing you want to think of that makes you smile and go back to your lonely bar stool.
With that, we conclude Waxing Nostalgic. I fear I’ve divulged far too much personal information over these last two posts, but fuck it, this ain’t Fluokids bitches….now back to the electro bangers!
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love these retro-classics!
Love JAMC! Best band in the world no doubt. You really should own Psycocandy, Darklands and all their other albums as well