Austin Improv

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It's a little spammy, but if you've got a pop-up blocker on, it's alright.

Lants wrote:

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness was one of the first rock albums I ever bonered out about.

It was the first album that I hated because my little brother played it so often. I still can't stand the popular songs, but I've since re-listened to some of the less over-played tracks and some of it's pretty good.

yeah...I really enjoyed some shitty music. Not to say that the smashing pumpkins is all bad, but it certainly reminds me of a very specific time and place in musical journey. The tonight tonight video was pretty sweet

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:it certainly reminds me of a very specific time and place in musical journey. The tonight tonight video was pretty sweet

Speaking of, I watched some videos of Nirvana at the Reading festival from '92 yesterday, and I still loved it. Just such raw... something. Hard to believe it was all so long ago.

this weekend,

i got this:


and this:


i really like them both, but am in new luff with the handsome family.

can't wait for the new st. vincent...

erikamay wrote: i got this:

WHOA!!!! ERIKA! That's a '67 Cougar! It's funny (perhaps only to me) that they put a Mercury Cougar on the cover art rather than a Mercury Cyclone. Maybe it was accidental, but I hope they're into cars and it was a joke for freaks like me. Here's a '67 Cyclone for comparison:

erikamay wrote: in new luff with the handsome family.

I really need to check this out... at Andrew Bird's Paramount show, he did like three covers of theirs.

i'd never hear this stones song before. it's my new jam.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwnHxvmGyc[/youtube]

Right now i've got the album Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins playing. Great stuff, right h'ya.

wow - just came across a great live show from Clay Allison (David Roback / Kendra Smith /etc before they changed their name to Opal) from 1984. So so so good! Been rocking this all morning so far. An Opal 1987 live show after this I haven't listened to yet...

When I first moved to Austin, someone stole my CD player out of my car... with my out-of-print Opal CD in it... my favorite CD at the time. A month later, a guy working at Spider House was playing the exact same CD. I told him how I lost mine, and he let begged me borrow his. I think I made a copy of it on cassette tape. This was Austin in 1996.

WHOA!!!! ERIKA! That's a '67 Cougar! It's funny (perhaps only to me) that they put a Mercury Cougar on the cover art rather than a Mercury Cyclone.

although the differences are subtle, i think the cougar looks more sexy. or, it could just be that there is a lady in a short skirt on it holding a sword.

and lance - yeah, honey moon is good. there are some tracks i could do without, but i am plussed by the new acquaintance with the handsome family overall.

djpenn wrote:Right now i've got the album Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins playing. Great stuff, right h'ya.

I love love love all Cocteau Twins!
it's tough to pick a favorite album

THIS

much better than Woke on a Whaleheart to me.

YES YES YES!!! Treasure is a REAL treasure. So much a soundtrack of my teenage years... would explain the poetry and such. And why I became such a 4AD fanatic. Then came Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press, This Mortal Coil... mmmmm.