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1990s |
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Ágætis Byrjun, Sigur Rós
Automatic for the People, R.E.M.
Bewitched, Luna
Bilingual, Pet Shop Boys
The Boatman’s Call, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Burned, Electrafixion
Deserter’s Songs, Mercury Rev
Everything Must Go, Manic Street Preachers
Head Music, Suede
Heaven on a Popsicle Stick, Smoke
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, Sinéad O’Connor
The Immaculate Collection, Madonna
In Utero, Nirvana
Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins
Odelay, Beck
The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, The Orb
Painful, Yo La Tengo
Remedy, Basement Jaxx
Roman Candle, Elliott Smith
Second Toughest in the Infants, Underworld
Surrender, The Chemical Brothers
Take it from the Man!, The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Three EPs, The Beta Band
This Is Hardcore, Pulp
Through the Trees, The Handsome Family
Wonderwheel, Utah Carol |
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Painful,
Yo La Tengo
Matador Records, October 5, 1993
Track Listing: 1. Big Day Coming, 2. From A Motel 6, 3. Double Dare, 4. Superstar-Watcher, 5. Nowhere Near, 6. Sudden Organ, 7. A Worrying Thing, 8. I Was The Fool Beside You For Too Long, 9. The Whole Of The Law, 10. Big Day Coming, 11. I Heard You Looking
You can sniff it. A storm is brewing and it’s gonna be big. Momentum is shifting. Has shifted. It really is that quick.
“There’s a big day coming
About a mile away
There’s a big day coming
and
I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait”
-from “Big Day Coming”
The controlled guitar feedback is like a distant rumble. Not immediately threatening, but inevitable and increasing. A change. A surreal swirl of storm clouds thrusts waves of gray and black across a rapidly closing sky. What once was is no longer. Temps plummet.
I’m lying down on top of a dingy, ugly-ass orange and red bedspread at a Motel 6 in God knows where. I lay on top of it because I don’t want to think about the sheets with their florescent light jizz stains or the roads of infidelity that have led a parade of bugs to this very oasis before me.
“Blank stare at the TV
The howling II’s on channel 3
Oh, I drift off to sleep
While the snow falls on the screen”
-from “From a Motel 6”
I wake up. Not exactly sure where. I get the feeling I should be somewhere else, but thinking so doesn’t transport me to any magic kingdom. Hardly. I’m in a car at a rest stop. It’s time to move on.
“Does it makes sense to you, getting old, living life 22
Well, I don’t mind, if I don’t think about it
Let’s go far away
Let’s leave today”
-from “A Worrying Thing”
Although I’m lost, I don’t think to ask for directions because I’m not sure where it is I’m going. I just know it’s going to be amazing once I get there. Sometimes, you just know things. I blink and prepare to head west without thinking too much more about it.
-G
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