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EVOL
Released: 1986 10 tracks
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I have loved music for a long time, I probably romanticized every adolescent moment or emotion while locked in my room with a Teac CD player plugged into my JVC boom-box (with the Bass Boost). So when I neared completion of high school, what better way to commemorate the accomplishment than with a quote from an idolized rock band that combined total cool with some hazy personal statement of lifestyle politics that I identified with. Upon reflection my choice of this part... MORE
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For a windy but sunny Sunday, here's Sonic Youth's cover of "Bubblegum" by Kim Fowley. (Fowley, mainly a record producer, has quite a story himself: he did probably the first rock song about LSD, called "The Trip," recorded the 1972-73 sessions by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, founded The Runaways after having met the teenaged Joan Jett and Sandy West, and much more. He's also said of himself: "I never wanted to be a mainstream rock star! I did succeed.") Sonic Y... MORE
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Wow! My 3 month anniversary came and went and I still haven’t done a post on my two favorite bands. Now that I am writing this I don’t think I even mentioned them in comments whether on my page or someone else’s. How could I let this slide? When I say favorite bands I mean that, if our government went the way of “Fahrenheit 451” I would rather die than give up my copies of Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground music. Well maybe not die exactly, but I would put up one hell o... MORE
