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Links for Saturday, March 18, 2017
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Links For Wednesday, March 15, 2017
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Albums From My Teen Years #6
I don’t remember when I first heard The Lemonheads. I just remember trying to fill my Columbia House order (remember them?), and saw the It’s A Shame About Ray album and thought I would give it a try because at least I’ve heard of The Lemonheads. I instantly fell in love with The Lemonheads. Juliana Hatfield played bass and backing vocals on It’s A Shame About Ray, and I fell in love with her too. I introduced my college roommate to The Lemonheads and he loved them too, along with Juliana Hatfield. I started getting into The Lemonheads back catalog, and really loved their old stuff too. They were more of a punk band in the late 80s and I loved it. Then in 1993 Come On Feel The Lemonheads came out and everybody knew who they were. -
One Year Ago
A year ago today my favorite band, Motion City Soundtrack, announced their breakup. It’s been a weird spring. Most springs in the past I’ve been looking forward to seeing where MCS was touring. They were a hard working band and were constantly touring. It was great. I was able to see them fourteen times, and I’m still kicking myself for missing a few other shows that I could have seen. It was also the main reason of their demise. For smaller bands to make it these days they have to be constantly touring. As you get older you just want to be home. I totally get it.
I don’t think a day has gone by since last 3.11 that I haven’t listened to some MCS. I’ve been reading their Reddit page and every week someone posts a song to discuss. That always leads me down the rabbit hole of all the amazing MCS YouTube videos. From old live performances, acoustic performances, to even some ukulele covers. All of them are so great because the songs are so great.
Whenever I try to listen to some new music I’m always like, “This is good, but not MCS good. Why don’t I just listen to MCS.” You would think I would get sick of MCS, but I don’t.
Currently the lead singer, Justin Pierre, is working on a solo album. I’m looking forward to that, and if he does any local Minneapolis shows, that would be great. Someday down the road I sure hope there is a reunion show. I will be right there in the front row, just like I have many time in the past.
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Links For Friday, March 10, 2017
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ reaches landmark achievement on Billboard charts
Some Thoughts on Fixing Obamacare
Congress Warns Donald Trump: Stop Deleting Your Tweets
God Help Them, The Cleveland Browns Are Trying To Outsmart The NFL
Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left
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Albums From My Teen Years #5
I remember watching Alternative Nation on MTV at my buddies house when the “Somebody to Shove” video came on. I instantly fell in love with Soul Asylum. It was crazy that they didn’t break out until their sixth album. Grave Dancers Union is a great album from start to finish, but “Runaway Train” got too overplayed. To this day, I alway skip that song when I listen to this album. “Black Gold” always reminds me of my senior year of high school. Soul Asylum is definitely my second favorite Minnesota band. Motion City Soundtrack being my favorite, obviously. Sorry to The Replacements and Hüsker Dü, and yeah Prince; not much of a fan. -
Links for Thursday, March 2, 2017
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My new Buddy! Just 530 kilometers to Dragonite.
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Albums From My Teen Years #4
Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend came out in 1991. I didn’t discover it until my college roommate introduced me to it in 1993. I don’t know if 1991 me would have liked Matthew Sweet, but 1993 me loved him. Girlfriend has always been a good road tripping album for me. To this day if I’m ever road tripping by myself I will crank this album up. -
Links For Friday, February 24, 2017