![]() ![]() Not On Label (Kristin Hersh Self-released) Thank you to KBOO for the archived audio, you can listen below. It'll be chronological, one song per release, including live tracks and a few surprises. Join me this Saturday 11/3 at midnight (technically it is Sunday morning) for a retrospective of Throwing Muses and Kristin Hersh and 50 Foot Wave. Each song was magnificent, but nonesomuch as "Fish".ġ988 was The Year Of Throwing Muses for me, and very likely laid the musical foundation for me for the rest of my listening life. Early in her superb memoir Rat Girl (2010), the songwriter Kristin Hersh describes driving home after an early gig by her band, Throwing Muses. Around the same time, a new friend pointed me to the Lonely Is An Eyesore compilation on 4AD records. I sought out The Fat Skier EP on cassette and devoured it. ![]() It was like nothing I had ever heard before. I was so instantly hooked on the swirling guitar and vocals, I played that track over and over again. UPDATE: Longtime Vic Chesnutt collaborator Kristin Hersh has set up a web page for donations to. Who would speak to me in my young adulthood?Įnter Muses track "A Feeling", which appeared on the Sire Records sampler cassette Just Say Yes. Journalist Katherine Lanpher interviews Kristin Hersh. Morrissey's lyrics spoke so fittingly to my high school years. his focus on the place and its inhabitants so intense he took to filming them. My beloved favorite band at that time, The Smiths, had just broken up. There may not be a lot we can count on these days but Kristin Hersh. It was my first semester away at college. January of 1988 is ground zero of my Throwing Muses fandom. ![]()
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