A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
I can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
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Nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic,
melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares
of earth, a...
Sad Songs
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Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which
publication I cannot remember,
*1. What are your earliest memories of music?*
The ...
Future Rock
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A rock book I have never ever heard of before, by a writer I never heard of
before - until this moment.
Published 1976.
After this book, *David Dow...
anti-theatricality in politics (slight return)
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Things have been too grim for me to do these posts, but then this one came
along (the theater kids being the (mal-)administration, if that isn't
obvi...
Up Middle Finger
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This pair had a Top 10 hit with a song that is basically about an
intra-scene war - the nu garage rappists (Oxide + Neutrino, So Solid)
versus the old...
Still In A Dream - my new book, out in June
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Excited to announce the publication this summer of Still In A Dream:
Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94. On White Rabbit
Books. It'...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
ReplyDeleteI can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
A real shame that the Hugo Largo albums are out of print and not on streaming services. They deserve to be remembered.
ReplyDeleteThere is a pretty good 1987 show on YouTube, recorded in Hoboken NJ. The cover of Wanted Dead or Alive is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79hrhVeGK0
I agree - one of the great lost bands of that era.
Deleteremember the Bon Jovi cover from their live shows - always a treat