50 Foot Wave
I'm a fucking addict. I can't stop listening to the six-song 50 Foot Wave CD I bought in March. I've taken breaks, but still it stands as the only CD I've listened to on repeat--for days, I tell you, and have not gotten sick of it. I'm still not sick of it. It's playing now.
In case you don't know, 50 Foot Wave is Kristin Hersh's new band, and she's rockin' like boundless teenager (even though she's in her late 30's and has four kids--what a woman.) For more, go here: www.throwingmusic.com. Word is the second installment comes out in January. Feed me.
Recently I began digging for more information, needing more. I knew that the idea for this new band was to put out a CD about every nine months instead of the two-year standard label interval, and to play as many live shows as humanly capable, to make this thing truly alive. In a recent interview, Kristin Hersh said also the plan was to continue to put out these shorter-length CDs. Which at first I thought was annoying. Six songs doesn't get you very far. However, see above. It's just enough. I'm getting off but not being let off the ride. She said most full-length CDs contain filler anyway and her intent here was to do it with no filler.
Now that's getting the most out of life. And it fills me with and recalls the same full emotion as when my college professor of Romantic poetry had me and everyone else in the class just risen from our seats and eager to take with our tongues the very wine droplets he was drinking from Keats. I swear everyone in the class had something gone hard and swollen on their bodies in those still few moments. That man was a good teacher. Dr. McEathron and 50 Foot Wave, life's vitamins.
In case you don't know, 50 Foot Wave is Kristin Hersh's new band, and she's rockin' like boundless teenager (even though she's in her late 30's and has four kids--what a woman.) For more, go here: www.throwingmusic.com. Word is the second installment comes out in January. Feed me.
Recently I began digging for more information, needing more. I knew that the idea for this new band was to put out a CD about every nine months instead of the two-year standard label interval, and to play as many live shows as humanly capable, to make this thing truly alive. In a recent interview, Kristin Hersh said also the plan was to continue to put out these shorter-length CDs. Which at first I thought was annoying. Six songs doesn't get you very far. However, see above. It's just enough. I'm getting off but not being let off the ride. She said most full-length CDs contain filler anyway and her intent here was to do it with no filler.
Now that's getting the most out of life. And it fills me with and recalls the same full emotion as when my college professor of Romantic poetry had me and everyone else in the class just risen from our seats and eager to take with our tongues the very wine droplets he was drinking from Keats. I swear everyone in the class had something gone hard and swollen on their bodies in those still few moments. That man was a good teacher. Dr. McEathron and 50 Foot Wave, life's vitamins.
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I've got "Dizzy", by the Throwing Muses, from, like, 1992 on maximum rotation on my iPod. Now you've compelled me to check out 50 Foot Wave.
Is it as good as 50-Foot Queenie?
Better, my friend. And, I hate to be one of those people, but the stuff before "Dizzy" is even better, though I would never discount "Dizzy" and its contemporaries.
That sounded grossly pretentious. Retry: the stuff before "Dizzy" is less poppy, more erratic and schizophrenic, which appeals more to my senses. By the way, it's awesome you've got that song. I rarely hear of anyone listening to Throwing Muses. I'm rather fanatic.
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