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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Lewis Taylor, again |
| Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:06:18 -0500 |
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From: "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald1@gmail.com>
> >And what was that stupid ass band name?
>>I'm at work, stunted google abilities...
>
> "June & The Exit Wounds."
>
> I can't think of anything LESS evocative of that music, which --as
> Stewart
> accurately noted-- is full of "overt Rundgren and SURF'S UP-era
> Beach Boys
> references."
I still don't think it's that awful a band name. It was definitely a
better band name than Twiggy, which had nothing to do with anything.
(I mean, *maybe* you could do a kind of retro-freakbeat thing kind of
like the first few Television Personalities records and call it Twiggy
and have it make sense, but Todd Fletcher's band sounded like the
dB's, so it's not even the same decade as far as cultural references
go.) And for that matter, the album title doesn't make a bit of sense
in that musical context either: a reference to Henry Gibson's racist
country singer in NASHVILLE? Really?
I dunno -- it was a band name and an album title that caught the eye,
and given how tiny the market was for Rundgren and SURF'S UP cops
in...what was it, '98? '99?...anyway, he could have called it
SOMETHING/SO TOUGH? by Runt and the Passions and it would have been a
commercial non-starter. I'm just glad I've got "How Much I Really
Loved You" to remember.
S
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