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mister muleboy - 2008-11-12 19:29:41
I came to "Zen Arcade" a bit late. Being a DC-dweller who had rejected post-Bad Brains hardcore, and the Ian-led Straight Edge, I knew OF HD before knowing their work. "Flip Your Wig" was perfect for me -- pop gems dressed in angry punk. I went backwards to NDR, and found it nigh-perfect -- emphasis on "nigh" [always a clinker or two, imho]. "Zen Arcade" was impenetrable for me at the time. It took a distance from punk to come to love it.
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chris - 2008-11-12 19:29:59
Off topic, but last week I posted on African Americans and Prop 8. Made the mistake of thinking before reading. I was wrong. Here is the correct answer (link below) . Prop 8 support was much more a generational issue then anything else. That is something I have always thought; gay rights is just a matter of time....
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/prop-8-myths.html
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Paula - 2008-11-12 19:55:24
I think FLIP YOUR WIG is an underrated album--it seems to be dismissed as lightweight but there are some great songs on it, not the least of which, "Green Eyes," the most romantic song ever.
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Bob - 2008-11-12 21:56:50
Ha, Chris, you're just pandering to demographics now, to ensure that you get the VP nomination with Xenophobia, blogster princess, that I proposed here a week or two ago. But you're going to have to sharpen your act, and be able to refute my astute observation that the universe is made of geography, not geometry, to really gain the people's confidence.
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SF Eli - 2008-11-13 06:16:40
Never listened to Husker Du, but I liked to say the name. Paula, you remember me trying to tell you the Circle Jerks were named after the downtown Circle in Indianapolis and not the more common meaning? I was a little young and um...unexposed. You smiled politely and nodded. It still makes me laugh.
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MacGregor - 2008-11-13 11:30:16
I came late to Husker Du, probably in the early 90s, having picked up a 10 inch of them covering Eight Miles High. I had little idea what to expect but when it exploded out of my speakers... It remains my favorite cover of all time. I've even come to prefer it to the original, which although great, seems dated in a way that the cover never will.
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mister muleboy - 2008-11-13 13:41:25
btw, if you are a Bob Mould fan, you can sidle over to Southpaw this Saturday night for Blowoff, Bob and Rich Morel's DJ extravaganza.
You and two thousand shirtless gay men writhing to Mould's musical menage. . . .
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MM - 2008-11-13 13:44:37
And yes, I did intend "menage," not "melange"
An insular pair [Mould/Morel], and an insular group of fans
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Bob - 2008-11-13 18:16:15
Hey, Debbie Gibson probably made the same mistake, Eli. And I think we all probably made the opposite mistake with the Butthole Surfers, unaware that "butthole surfing" was Texas talk for intertubing on a river.
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Paula - 2008-11-13 18:49:19
You and two thousand shirtless gay men
A.k.a. "my typical Tuesday night."
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