Sounds like recent Superchunk, which is fine by me. On a separate note, didn't Michael Benjamin Lerner used to just go by Benjamin Lerner? Was there an announcement that I missed?
I saw them on this tour, first at the Abbey Pub in Chicago with a couple hundred people, then at the Metro later that year with a few hundred more. Probably saw them another 5-7 times after that, every time they came through Chicago. Super fun band live.
1) I don' think it was incumbent on the writers to lay the groundwork for calling Morrissey a racist. There's plenty of real world evidence for it. I don't think Morrissey's complaint was "yeah, I'm racist, but they didn't prove that in the show!".
2) I don't know who Drakeo is. I'm old enough to be a Smiths fan, which means I'm probably too old to know who Drakeo is.
3) I didn't say it was my best example. I'm saying Morrissey being a racist is not a new thing. And it was brought up back then as well, I'm not just quoting an old song for laughs. Read "Morrissey and Marr, the Severed Alliance." Johnny Rogan talked about the Bengali in Platforms controversy in that book.
"Even worse – calling the Morrissey character out for being a racist, without pointing out any specific instances, offers nothing."
~Bengali, Bengali
Shelve your western plans
and understand
that life is hard enough when you belong here~
And that was 30 years ago, when people didn't think he was a racist yet.
For some reason I lost not only my avatar, but any opportunity to fix the fact that my avatar is gone. The new login system works, but apparently still no avatar.
Funny, because a BRMC show was one of my best concert experiences. I'd seen them a few months earlier at the Metro in Chicago, and it didn't sell out, but crowd was decent. So a few months later I decided I'd just buy a ticket at the door. Bad move. Sold out. I'd already paid for parking, so I figured I'd wait around in the cold to see if someone had an extra. There were about 10 of us waiting. About 8 people found extras. Down to two, Spike Keating, who played on BRMC tours walks by and asks if we're still waiting for tickets. Puts us on the guest list and got in for free. Elefant opened. Great show.
I actually really love Telephono. I wish Britt didn't hate it, but I get it. I have some college essays that I read and think "how the fuck was I that dumb", but I think it's an illustrative moment in the evolution of one of our greatest rock bands. And it has some really great tracks. The first five songs are really great, and Government Darling/Plastic Mylar are among the best back to back tracks on any Spoon album.
GGGGG has the higher highs. I think there are a few songs on GGGGG that are better than any song on Gimme Fiction (Black Like Me is my favorite Spoon song of all time, but Cherry Bomb and Don't You Evah are close), but Gimme Fiction is sustained excellence beginning to end. It has no songs that I skip, unlike GGGGG. And I think it gets lost in the shuffle compared to Beast and Dragon, Mathematical Mind, and Sister Jack, but I think the Delicate Place is the best song on that album.
Yeah, I've only really dabbled, but as an album, I like Mirror Traffic a lot better than any full Pavement album, though I really love some individual Pavement songs.
This was my entry point into Deerhunter. I still remember listening to the pre-release stream on NPR on a bit of whim just because they were in my orbit. It was probably the third time though in the background when Desire Lines suddenly slapped me in the face. This album is an all-timer for me, and they've since become one of my favorite bands of all time.
I saw them not long after I saw Dig, and it was a shit show. They "played" for about two hours, and there were maybe ten songs, because Anton would either spend 15 minutes ranting about something, or they'd play 20 minutes jams that just really tried everyone's patience. I was hesitant to see them again, but did so a few years later. Totally played it straight. 20-25 song set, kept it moving, not sure Anton even said a word to the crowd. It was great. It's like the first time I saw them he was playing the Anton Newcombe character from Dig. But later he just went back to playing music.
I love the Dandys through Odditorium, but haven't listen to much of their more recent stuff. 13 Tales is great, and I remember listening to it every day on my road trip from LA back to Champaign for my last year of law school on my Car Discman.
Yeah, I've talked to her a few times after shows and she's always been super nice. Your story reminds me of a time that I saw Chris Owens' solo show at the Hideout in Chicago after Girls broke up. He was wearing a Smith Westerns t-shirt. I thought 'that's kind of cool that he's wearing a t-shirt from a local band'. Then I turned around to go grab another beer and the Smith Westerns had been standing right behind me the whole time.
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