Wow, I just posted a little "blast from the past" on Anna's MOG, and it got me thinking about my old favorite (aw hell, still high up there) band, Catherine Wheel. I watched a movie a few months back called "Millions," which, among other things was about a young boy who was obsessed with saints. One day in school, he spoke of St. Catherine of Alexandria. I'm not Catholic, so I knew nothing of...
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Remember when "Black Metallic" came out, and people thought Catherine Wheel was a shoegaze band? Whoops.
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Catherine Wheel formed in 1990, comprising singer/guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes, and drummer Neil Sims. Hawes had previously played in a Joy Division-influenced band called Eternal. They took their moniker from the firework known as the Catherine wheel, which in turn had taken its name from the medieval torture device of the same name. The band's debut albu...
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If you ever find the fastest way out of town, whistle-stop breakfast's on me. The hours, however, shall be divided equitably by playlist and be sure to pick out songs like you're begging to stay breathing. Bigger baggage gets first dibs."Don't ask me what it is or where to go because I don't know."If you ever have the loudest song to which to sing along, we'll split gas money. Rip through this ...
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Rollingstone.com named this the best album of 1997, and the Big Takeover Magazine, largely on the strength of this album, recently named Catherine Wheel as the best band of the 90's (over Radiohead). The real tragedy, however, is that due to record company hassles, this album was never properly promoted and is now out of print in the US. While C/W went on to release another cd, the less inspir...
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Fron their 1995 release Happy Days, I have always been enamored with this album. One of the tracks which belies the album title, I don't know why I'm drawn to songs such as this - oh wait a minute - never mind
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| 1 Black Metallic |
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| 2 I Want to Touch You |
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| 3 Texture |
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| 4 Ferment |
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| 5 Indigo Is Blue |
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