The Real Ramona marked the perfect balance of Throwing Muses' angular songwriting and latent pop tendencies. Where Hunkpapa tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to mix these elements, this album succeeds with surreal pop songs like "Counting Backwards" and "Red Shoes." They're catchy and riveting, clearly linked to the band's early material yet more focused and accessible. "Graffiti" and "Two-Step" are two of Kristin Hersh's most appealing pop snippets, but dark, uncompromising tracks like "Say Goodbye," "Ellen West," and "Hook in Her Head" reaffirm that she can still write troubling, fascinating songs like nobody else. And just before she left the Muses to form Belly, Tanya Donelly finally arrived as a full-fledged songwriter with the giddy, gleeful "Not Too Soon" and "Honeychain," proving that she could be a charming foil to Hersh's more challenging style. Their final album as a quartet, The Real Ramona highlights the best points of the group's sound, making it a great starting point for new Throwing Muses fans.
h1. I keed, I keed ;)I will have only myself to blame... but I can't help the fact that this is one of the final albums I heard last night - whilst fulfilling my duty to the _*OTHER "M"*_ in my life... & hooking up a friend.*+Throwing Muses+* Like so many other bands during my formative years, they were a fixture in my life (are these years still in effect - I am still morphing so I guess they...
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My kids absolutely love the "Slideshow" function on the iPhoto application on my computer. They sit like raccoons caught in a trash can looking up at it and it gives me a chance to expose them to "Daddy's Tunes". I'm unsuccessfully attempting to subvert the steady diet of insipid children's music my wife seems intent on force-feeding them. I select a different track each time and try to gauge t...
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The main reason I started this little 10 song project is that I wanted to know why these songs, in particular, move me so much. They're far from the best songs in my collection or the ones I respect the most or consider most "important." They're just the ones that happen to affect some bizarre psychological, subjective reaction that I can't understand, but makes me want to hear them again almos...
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I have started yet another blog, that's running in tandem with about 4 others that I neglect on a regular basis. For further elaboration on the wonderfulness of this piece, follow the link after the video.The piece is called "Muto" by the artist Blu.Visit my new blog I Love Process for more.You can visit Blu's web site here
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| 1 Counting Backwards |
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| 2 Him Dancing |
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| 3 Red Shoes |
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| 4 Graffiti |
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| 5 Golden Thing |
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| 6 Ellen West |
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| 7 Dylan |
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| 8 Hook in Her Head |
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| 9 Not Too Soon |
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| 10 Honeychain |
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| 11 Say Goodbye |
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| 12 Two Step |
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