I was in Music Millenium in Portland and was browsing through CD's finding nothing at all when I became more and more aware of a powerful voice sinking its hooks into my conciousness... this was when  Jeff Buckley's Grace was first released... I rarely go up to the counter and ask but i did this time!


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From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> 

> I was in Bow Wow Records in Albuquerque at some point in the summer of 
> '94, when the in-store PA started playing "When You Were My Baby" by 
> the Magnetic Fields. The CD, the two-fer of DISTANT PLASTIC TREES/THE 
> WAYWARD BUS, had only just come in as a trade-in, and I made the 
> manager take it off after the first song so I could buy it. That was 
> my introduction to Stephin Merritt in general, which steered a lot of 
> my tastes for the rest of the '90s. 
> 
> S 
>