I've been meaning to read to one of the 33 1/3 books for awhile now. If you are not familiar with the project, it is a series of books about important rock albums. There is a blog associated with the project. I picked up one titled Let it Be (Replacements) by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decembrists. I say titled because it is less about the album or the band that it is about how that album figured in the middle school years of Mr. Meloy. He does a great job writing about how enthusiastic kids get about their music. He also spends a lot of time talking about bonding or trying to bond over music. I'll read more, but Matt says don't read the OK Computer one.
I managed to miss the Replacements in the 80s despite listening to plenty of similar bands. I think it was just harder to get ahold of unfamiliar music, what with crappy radio, MTV's decay, and with limited mix tape making amongst my friends.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Right round round round
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Should brack and i take umbrage with that last line? Are you really going to blame your inability to listen to anything other than Jimmy Buffet on your high school friends' lack of mix-taping?!! For shame t.
-n
If it wasn't for your stinginess with the mix tapes, maybe I would have seen Big Black play live.
I understand that the Meat is Murder one is fiction - the "Black Sheep" of the series, so to speak (though not in the NBN sense of the word).
To my way of thinking in HS, mix-tapes were for dead heads and dudes who got sent off to boarding school but wanted to [unsuccessfully] throw game at a chick back home.
I was neither.
BTW, while Neill B never mixed any tapes for me, I do recall him outright lending me a bunch o' vinyl, including God's Favorite Dog, which - as you well know - contains THE BEST SONG EVER: "He said something's wrong again, he ain't been the same . . ."
b
oooo fiction with Meat is Murder, each chapter based on a song? Ick?
Am I getting dissed for slacking on converting the cassette I have to digital (God's Fave...)
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