One Auditeer mentioned Robyn Hitchcock's 'Perspex Island'. Great call- that was a wonderful album. He had a fluke hit (I guess it wasn't a 'top 40' hit, but a 'radio hit'?) with "So You Think You're In Love?", and the entire album really was a crackin' one. My fave track was 'She Doesn't Exist', with Michael Stipe on backing vocals. >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- >From: :audities@smoe.org >To: audities@smoe.org >Sent: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 -0800 (PST) 11:48:03 > > Hi, > > I guess that part of my perspective on that is >that we never had a radio station, here in >Arkansas, that was as good as what you had out >there. We pretty well went from having stations >that played Def Leppard, Gun 'N' Roses, The >Scorpions, Van Halen, Motley Crue,... etc.; and >were just breaking into playing some music that >intrigued me more than the later Grunge, like: >Jellyfish, the Posies, Teenage Fanclub, and Mathew >Sweet; to having stations that as far as they were >evidentally concerned, nothing existed except >Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. They went >from Hair Metal with a sprinkle of Power-Pop to all >Seattle sound. > > Peace, > > W.D. > >Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:28:35 -0500 >From: "Stewart Mason" >To: >Subject: Re: 1991 >Message-ID: <001601c75c9c$67f87c20$1d02a8c0@Sparky> > > > > >I see what you're saying, and that's probably how >the history books >are likely to shape that era, but that's certainly >not how I remember >it! > >My personal background of 1991 is that I was 21 >years old and stuck in >a small town on the Texas/New Mexico border (quite >literally stuck, >actually, because my mom had had a massive stroke >the previous year >and I'd had to quit school temporarily and become >her in-home health >care provider) where the closest record store was >the Hastings in >Clovis, 30 miles away, and the closest decent >record store was in >Lubbock, 100 miles in the opposite direction. My >only musical >lifeline at the time was a college radio station >out of Amarillo, >KACV, that was very much on the commercial end of >alternative, but way >the hell better than the other options. So I >listened to this station >(and KTXT, Lubbock's college station) constantly in >'91 and '92, and >my memory of these stations is that NEVERMIND >definitely had a *huge* >impact on the playlists, but it was in no way an >overnight change from >pre-grunge into grunge. It wasn't suddenly all >Pearl Jam, >Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and the >increasingly crap imitations >of same. > >No, my memory is that NEVERMIND was roughly >equivalent, in an industry >sense, to the explosion of MTV nearly a decade >before. It caught the >big labels by surprise, and for at least a couple >of years, they had >no idea what exactly The Kidz were responding to or >why, and whenever >that happens, their first instinct is to basically >throw everything at >the wall and see what sticks. > >So yeah, there was the po-faced post-Nirvana crowd >in one corner, but >think back at what else suddenly emerged over the >next few years >(roughly the period between, say, NEVERMIND and the >Apples In Stereo's >FUN TRICK NOISEMAKER, to pick a totally arbitrary >end point that >demarcates the rise of "indie" as opposed to >"alternative")! > >Think about it -- all these records were not only >released on major >labels, I remember hearing them on the radio and >seeing the artists in >magazines and on MTV: > >Teenage Fanclub's BANDWAGONESQUE (remember when >they were on SNL in >'92, doing "The Concept" and that mash-up of "What >You Do To Me" and >"Satan"?) > >The Pooh Sticks' THE GREAT WHITE WONDER and MILLION >SELLER > >Juliana Hatfield's BECOME WHAT YOU ARE > >Letters To Cleo's AURORA GORY ALICE > >American Music Club's MERCURY > >The Wedding Present's HIT PARADE 1 and 2 > >Barenaked Ladies' GORDON > >Beastie Boys' CHECK YOUR HEAD and ILL COMMUNICATION > > >Eugenius' OOMALAMA and MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS > >Green Day's DOOKIE > >PJ Harvey's DRY and RID OF ME > >The High Llamas' GIDEON GAYE > >Stereolab's TRANSIENT RANDOM NOISE BURSTS WITH >ANNOUNCEMENTS and MARS >AUDIAC QUINTET > >The Lemonheads' IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY > >Luna's LUNAPARK > >Shonen Knife's LET'S KNIFE > >Sloan's SMEARED and TWICE REMOVED > >The Spent Poets' THE SPENT POETS > >The Breeders' LAST SPLASH > >Lisa Germano's HAPPINESS > >Kirsty MacColl's TITANIC DAYS > >Mazzy Star's SO TONIGHT THAT I MAY SEE > >The Muffs' THE MUFFS > >Redd Kross' PHASESHIFTER > >Liz Phair's EXILE IN GUYVILLE and WHIP-SMART > >Saint Etienne's FOXBASE ALPHA and SO TOUGH > >The Ass Ponys' ELECTRIC ROCK MUSIC > >Beck's MELLOW GOLD > >Massive Attack's PROTECTION > >Portishead's DUMMY > >Sonic Youth's DIRTY and EXPERIMENTAL JET SET TRASH >AND NO STAR > >That Dog's THAT DOG and TOTALLY CRUSHED OUT > >Matthew Sweet's 100% FUN > >Elastica's ELASTICA > >Ben Folds Five's BEN FOLDS FIVE > >Aimee Mann's WHATEVER and I'M WITH STUPID > >The Sixths' WASPS NESTS > >This was actually a period of surprising vitality >and variety for the >big labels: the shutdown that you're talking about, >when "alternative" >started to mean only "flannel-clad dick-swinging," >didn't really >happen until well after. My theory is that when >Kurt Cobain died, the >A&R lemmings decided that the primary search was >for a "new" KC, a >search that they got entirely wrong, as they're >wont to do. > >S >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William Rabeneck" >> Nirvana were also kind of a curse, because after >them, most bands >> seemed to feel that everything had to be so damn >serious. Hell, >> look what it did to Cobain! Give me a cocky old >live fool, trying >> to recapture his glory, like David Lee Roth, over >a dead Kurt Cobain >> any day. >> >> The move away from the previous music, toward the >Grunge thing, is >> also just emblematic of the way the music >industry has usually been >> run. You've got suits gambling on what the kids >are going to like, >> and putting all of their eggs, usually in just >one or two baskets >> genre-wise. If the suits (radio and recorded >music industry) ever >> got wise, and promoted more variety at the same >time, I think that >> they'd actually be pleasantly surprised with >their sales. In >> general, radio is probably gonna have a better >play list, if they >> promote the ten best songs from five Rock >sub-genres, rather than >> the twenty-five best songs from two Rock >sub-genres. > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Need Mail bonding? >Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from >Yahoo! Answers >users.============================================= >========================== >Detailed Audities-List information: > >To manage your Audities List settings or >unsubscribe: >l&extra=audities>