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<!--quoteo(post=79912:date=Feb 18 2010, 02:46 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Feb 18 2010, 02:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Violent Femmes were the tipping point for me. My best friend had me listen to A Blister in the Sun -- that was probably the last day I really listened to the Duran Durans of the world. It was also around the same time that skateboarding became incredibly trendy. So I bought a skateboard, a pair of Chuck Taylors, bleached my hair and started listening to edgier music.
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20 years after that record came out I could still go to a Femmes show and witness a hall full of kids that weren't out of diapers when it was released singing along with every word. And we're talking about songs that were never widely heard on radio. That record was a touchstone in a way that not even the earliest R.E.M. records were.
For me, that was a great album that came out when I was 23. I really can't even grasp what it has meant to kids that grew up with it.
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What he said. Especially the Mats and Husker Du.
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I almost never gave Husker Du a chance because I heard Sugar first, and didn't like that side of Mould at all. I'm glad I did, because they are one of my favorites of all time now.
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Well...anyway, I'm not ashamed to admit that I still like to bust out the Duran Duran every once in a while. I have very fond childhood memories attached to a lot of their songs.
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<!--quoteo(post=79929:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I almost never gave Husker Du a chance because I heard Sugar first, and didn't like that side of Mould at all. I'm glad I did, because they are one of my favorites of all time now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have loved every phase of Mould's career except the electronic shit. I never saw Husker Du. Sugar was fucking awesome but then I'm a power pop guy.
My two favorite Mould memories:
Workbook tour. Friend drove up 2.5 hours to Topeka so we could drive a half hour to Lawrence to see him. We were told right before he left Wichita that there were plenty of tickets. Got there...sold out. We were asking people on line if they'd sell their tickets for a price... a guy gets off the tour bus and asks us what we're doing. I think he was checking to see if we were scalpers. We told him and he told us to wait right there. He went into the club and came back out with a pair of backstage passes for us, making us promise that under no circumstances would we use them to go backstage. Amazing show.
Black Sheets Of Rain tour. We have tickets this time. Bob's mike is shorting out all night and he's getting shocked on the lip every time he touches it. He never stops to have a roadie deaal with it. He just rages more and more...amping up the show another notch with each zap. They finally fix it between the set and the encore. AMAZING show.
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<!--quoteo(post=79932:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:48 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Feb 18 2010, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=79929:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I almost never gave Husker Du a chance because I heard Sugar first, and didn't like that side of Mould at all. I'm glad I did, because they are one of my favorites of all time now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have loved every phase of Mould's career except the electronic shit. I never saw Husker Du. Sugar was fucking awesome but then I'm a power pop guy.
My two favorite Mould memories:
Workbook tour. Friend drove up 2.5 hours to Topeka so we could drive a half hour to Lawrence to see him. We were told right before he left Wichita that there were plenty of tickets. Got there...sold out. We were asking people on line if they'd sell their tickets for a price... a guy gets off the tour bus and asks us what we're doing. I think he was checking to see if we were scalpers. We told him and he told us to wait right there. He went into the club and came back out with a pair of backstage passes for us, making us promise that under no circumstances would we use them to go backstage. Amazing show.
Black Sheets Of Rain tour. We have tickets this time. Bob's mike is shorting out all night and he's getting shocked on the lip every time he touches it. He never stops to have a roadie deaal with it. He just rages more and more...amping up the show another notch with each zap. They finally fix it between the set and the encore. AMAZING show.
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were those acoustic shows?
I saw Mould at Mabels in Champaign. The only show I've EVER gone to by myself. Spur of the moment, and I was not disappointed.
I also saw him at the Aragon, got pretty drunk, then after that show, went to the Metro and saw the Goo Goo Dolls (when they were still cool) at a late show. I was profoundly intoxicated by the end of that one. Only time I went to 2 different shows in one night.
Oh, and Rok? Sugar fucking rocks.
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I just never cared for Sugar's style. The music didn't grab me, and at the time they were getting air play, sounded pretty tame compared to the heavier grunge bands that I was in to. I still love Husker Du though.
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You want to talk about gay BT? The Goo Goo Dolls? Cool? Really? :-)
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<!--quoteo(post=79935:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:53 PM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Feb 18 2010, 03:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=79932:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:48 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Feb 18 2010, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=79929:date=Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Feb 18 2010, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I almost never gave Husker Du a chance because I heard Sugar first, and didn't like that side of Mould at all. I'm glad I did, because they are one of my favorites of all time now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have loved every phase of Mould's career except the electronic shit. I never saw Husker Du. Sugar was fucking awesome but then I'm a power pop guy.
My two favorite Mould memories:
Workbook tour. Friend drove up 2.5 hours to Topeka so we could drive a half hour to Lawrence to see him. We were told right before he left Wichita that there were plenty of tickets. Got there...sold out. We were asking people on line if they'd sell their tickets for a price... a guy gets off the tour bus and asks us what we're doing. I think he was checking to see if we were scalpers. We told him and he told us to wait right there. He went into the club and came back out with a pair of backstage passes for us, making us promise that under no circumstances would we use them to go backstage. Amazing show.
Black Sheets Of Rain tour. We have tickets this time. Bob's mike is shorting out all night and he's getting shocked on the lip every time he touches it. He never stops to have a roadie deaal with it. He just rages more and more...amping up the show another notch with each zap. They finally fix it between the set and the encore. AMAZING show.
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were those acoustic shows?
I saw Mould at Mabels in Champaign. The only show I've EVER gone to by myself. Spur of the moment, and I was not disappointed.
I also saw him at the Aragon, got pretty drunk, then after that show, went to the Metro and saw the Goo Goo Dolls (when they were still cool) at a late show. I was profoundly intoxicated by the end of that one. Only time I went to 2 different shows in one night.
Oh, and Rok? Sugar fucking rocks.
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No, these were well before the acoustic tours. I once saw him play a whole solo show sitting with his 12-string it it rocked harder than almost any other show I've seen.
Workbook and Black Sheets tours pretty much featured the bands that he made each of those first two solo albums with. The Black Sheets touring band was great. Just Bob with Anton Fier and Tony Maimone.
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I'm sure my mom cried herself to sleep that night, too...</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Was this about the time you bought some of that "new and trendy" White Sox gear? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
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dude, up until "Name" came out, and they realized they could sell a lot of records with ballads, the Goo Goo Dolls were a great band, and fairly respected. Paul Westerberg was writing songs for them. Superstar Carwash is a fucking great album.
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dude, up until "Name" came out, and they realized they could sell a lot of records with ballads, the Goo Goo Dolls were a great band, and fairly respected. Paul Westerberg was writing songs for them. Superstar Carwash is a fucking great album.
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I will admit that I liked them as well early on in their career before they went completely pop. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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dude, up until "Name" came out, and they realized they could sell a lot of records with ballads, the Goo Goo Dolls were a great band, and fairly respected. Paul Westerberg was writing songs for them. Superstar Carwash is a fucking great album.
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This is video from the specific show I was at. Drunk. Man the internet is something else.
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jinx!
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