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jon_chaisson) wrote2010-01-31 07:38 pm
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Entry tags:
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[RTS] Compilation: Walk in Silence, autumn 1988
tape brand: Memorex dbs 90, more than likely taping over something that was on it previously. I had a lot of that brand from the local Radio Shack. Most of the earlier Flying Bohemians jams were taped using that brand.
compilation made: Autumn 1988, probably October, given the release dates of some of these songs. Start of my senior year in high school.
listened to: Repeatedly while on the way to/from school my senior year. Distinctly remember sitting in the last seat of the bus on the way home (the shorter one next to the emergency exit door, that is) with this one playing...I used to watch the town go by, headphones blaring my music. Although I also remember listening to it in the third or fourth seat in, scowling at no one in particular, being in a pissy mood. Weird that I remember those things.
mindset: Still a moody bastard, but accepting that I wasn't like the popular kids. Changing from feeling sorry for myself to fashioning myself as the writer/artist/musician I always wanted to be. Missing all my friends that had graduated earlier that year who were a year ahead of me, but helped by befriending Kris, who told me to lighten the hell up. :)
writing: a lot of lyrics and poetry, Belief in Fate, half-hearted attempt at rewriting the IWN, and a silly mystery short story I wrote in english class with the investigator's name being Chase Johnson.
girlfriend: I believe I was about to be introduced to Tracey at this point. She quite liked this compilation.
SIDE A
1. Depeche Mode, 'Stripped'
My favorite DM song of that time, as I'd finally picked up Black Celebration about a year previous, and had used it in a pivotal scene in the aborted IWN sequel. Distinctly remember the song clicking with me in one of the last summer vacations I'd had with my parents, listening on headphones and deeming it cool. In my moody mindset, I'd listen to this album at top volume late at night on my headphones, angry at the world.
2. Morrissey, 'Everyday Is Like Sunday'
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head58 and I always equated this song with Athol, specifically the "this is the coastal town they forgot to bomb" line. At the time we were both sick of the small town and wanted to move on to college. Also--this, and many of the tracks on this compilation, are from vinyl swiped borrowed from the local radio station that wasn't going to play it anyway.
3. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, 'What I Am'
Say what you will, I never really got sick of this song. Remember hearing h58 and Eric G debating the philosophy behind this song while driving Eric to Albany so he could take the bus/train to Utica where he was going to college. Also remember Carin L. from a year behind me singing this during a school concert. Wonder what she's doing nowadays...?
4. The Sugarcubes, "Coldsweat"
I know the original comp version is the remix from the single. Heavily played on 120 Minutes at the time, and my favorite track off Life's Too Good. Kris and I talked about this album quite a bit, and I think she once told someone she disliked to go "Take Some Petrol, Darling".
5. The Prime Movers, "Strong As I Am"
Another radio station single. Dude, this song ROCKS. It's from Manhunter, Michael Mann's movie based on the first Hannibal Lecter book Red Dragon. One of those "oh yeah, I remember this!" songs.
6. Erasure, "Chains of Love"
Another radio station single (as was the album it was from The Innocents), and another 120 Minutes track. Got into this band with this album.
7. The Jesus & Mary Chain, "Sidewalking"
Another radio station album, if you can believe that. I wasn't a big J&MC fan back then, but this song was quite cool and heavily played on WAMH. Used it to practice my somewhat newly-acquired bass as well.
8. Cocteau Twins, "Blue Bell Knoll"
Distinctly remember being sold on the album of the same name when WMDK (now one of WFNX's satellite stations) played the first side of this album. I believe I bought the album a few weeks later and played the hell out of it. This song evokes a late snowy winter to me, a song for hunkering down and dealing with the cold outside. Also an album I listened to late at night on my walkman, losing myself in the dreaminess of their signature sound. I would soon pick up more of their discography via Nathane and others.
9. Joy Division, "She's Lost Control"
The second side of the JD Substance cassette was heavily listened to at this point, and this is track 1 on side 2. One of the songs I used to use when practicing bass...I was always drawn to Hooky's multi-string, melodical style.
10. Siouxsie & the Banshees, "Peek-a-Boo"
Another radio station single (I bought the album at either Main Street Records in Noho or Al-Bum's in Amherst, if I'm not mistaken). Was never a big Siouxsie fan until 120 played this incessantly. The dummy she shook around in the video for this song reminded me of Robert Smith. Years later when I met her at a signing, I told her this and she and Budgie cracked up.
11. Stump, "Buffalo"
A 120 Minutes track and an album I'm sure I picked up at Al-Bum's. I've posted the video for this one a few times on my LJ already. Yeah, that "swing big bottom" song!
12. Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet, "I'm Tired of Getting Pushed Around"
A radio station single. Not many remember this one...I found out it was the two non-singing guys from Fine Young Cannibals doing this track. Entertainment Tonight used to use it as filler music, and I think that's why I ended up using it.
13. Shriekback, "Go Bang!"
Honestly, why do I always get into bands just as they're about to break up or at least sell out? A silly and slight song that I liked at the time. Not their best, but it's fun. I believe it was put on here to fill out side one, which had very little space left.
SIDE B
1. Wire, "Boiling Boy"
If I recall, I strangely enough got their A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck album at a big discount due to having a coupon I got from a cereal box, of all things. Everyone knows 'Kidney Bingos' from this album, but this one was my favorite from the start, because of the way the song is layered. This may not make sense, but this is one of those songs where it kinda gives me the feeling of being outside, yet not being out in the open (there's a few out there that give me that sort of image). This one in particular being near the top of a hill, under a treeline, watching the valley below. Why, I have no idea.
2. Cocteau Twins, "Carolyn's Fingers"
See "Blue Bell Knoll" above. The big hit from the album, and one that got a lot of airplay on 120 as well as all the college stations (not to mention WMDK as well). There's a very amusing version of The Flying Bohemians attempting to do this song, as I'd learned the riff before a TFB jam session.
3. Til Tuesday, "(Believed You Were) Lucky"
A radio station single...this song didn't stick with me right away until I realized it fit good as an opening song to my kinda-new project at the time, Belief in Fate. I believe the story's title came first (which was a reference to something I'd written in an english class earlier that year), but it fit in quite nicely, considering the song's chorus.
4. The Psychedelic Furs, "President Gas"
Their All of This and Nothing tape really made me appreciate this band, and this song stuck with me for some strange reason...I think partly due to Bush recently winning the '88 election. My first instance of political frustration. Come on, it was one of those "I'm hip because I found a song that fits the times" thing you do when you're a kid like me. ;)
5. Nick Heyward, "You're My World"
Another radio station album. This is one of those songs that's too harmless 80s-pop to be any good, but I found myself liking it...of course, giving it cred because he used to be the lead singer of Haircut 100, and I was retro even then due to my MTV upbringing. I think about this point in the comp, I'd run out of songs to put in that I hadn't already used elsewhere, so the next few were more filler than anything else.
6. Stump, "Charlton Heston"
This one actually got more 120 Minutes play than "Buffalo" did (probably because it's easier on the ears). That, and the frogs. The line "Thou shalt not bonk thy neighbor's wife" cracks me up to this day.
7. Transvision Vamp, "Tell That Girl to Shut Up"
Another radio station album. I never knew until much later that this was a cover, and that the drummer later ended up in Bush. I remember doing a quickie record review for h58 for this album (Pop Art), thinking it was kinda neat, but not the best. Another filler song.
8. Wire, "Ahead"
I'd wanted to do a cover of this song ever since hearing it on Enigma Variations 2 a few years previous, but the only thing I could play was the bass for it. I bought The Ideal Copy a few months after A Bell..., and that's why I like the latter more than this one, but this is by far one of their best songs ever. I know I called WAMH a few times to request this song, and have taped proof of it somewhere...
9. Communards, "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Another radio station single, and another filler song. Being a young'un in the 70s, I think I found the original one of my favorite songs of that decade, which kind of fueled the idea of putting this version here.
10. Nik Kershaw, "Wouldn't It Be Good"
Another filler...I think I got this song from a UK pop compilation that I'd found cheap somewhere, and always liked this song.
11. Joy Division, "Atmosphere"
No matter what, this song had to be the last song on the compilation, because of its 'ending theme' quality. There's a scene in Belief in Fate, partially based on a dream I'd had, in which this song was playing in the background while I emptied out my locker at the end of the school day, and passing by a lot of friends on the way out...a sort of subconscious 'I'm leaving them' sort of thing, which I incorporated into that book. My #2 favorite song of that year, mostly because of this dream. Also where the compilation title comes from.
compilation made: Autumn 1988, probably October, given the release dates of some of these songs. Start of my senior year in high school.
listened to: Repeatedly while on the way to/from school my senior year. Distinctly remember sitting in the last seat of the bus on the way home (the shorter one next to the emergency exit door, that is) with this one playing...I used to watch the town go by, headphones blaring my music. Although I also remember listening to it in the third or fourth seat in, scowling at no one in particular, being in a pissy mood. Weird that I remember those things.
mindset: Still a moody bastard, but accepting that I wasn't like the popular kids. Changing from feeling sorry for myself to fashioning myself as the writer/artist/musician I always wanted to be. Missing all my friends that had graduated earlier that year who were a year ahead of me, but helped by befriending Kris, who told me to lighten the hell up. :)
writing: a lot of lyrics and poetry, Belief in Fate, half-hearted attempt at rewriting the IWN, and a silly mystery short story I wrote in english class with the investigator's name being Chase Johnson.
girlfriend: I believe I was about to be introduced to Tracey at this point. She quite liked this compilation.
SIDE A
1. Depeche Mode, 'Stripped'
My favorite DM song of that time, as I'd finally picked up Black Celebration about a year previous, and had used it in a pivotal scene in the aborted IWN sequel. Distinctly remember the song clicking with me in one of the last summer vacations I'd had with my parents, listening on headphones and deeming it cool. In my moody mindset, I'd listen to this album at top volume late at night on my headphones, angry at the world.
2. Morrissey, 'Everyday Is Like Sunday'
head58 and I always equated this song with Athol, specifically the "this is the coastal town they forgot to bomb" line. At the time we were both sick of the small town and wanted to move on to college. Also--this, and many of the tracks on this compilation, are from vinyl 3. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, 'What I Am'
Say what you will, I never really got sick of this song. Remember hearing h58 and Eric G debating the philosophy behind this song while driving Eric to Albany so he could take the bus/train to Utica where he was going to college. Also remember Carin L. from a year behind me singing this during a school concert. Wonder what she's doing nowadays...?
4. The Sugarcubes, "Coldsweat"
I know the original comp version is the remix from the single. Heavily played on 120 Minutes at the time, and my favorite track off Life's Too Good. Kris and I talked about this album quite a bit, and I think she once told someone she disliked to go "Take Some Petrol, Darling".
5. The Prime Movers, "Strong As I Am"
Another radio station single. Dude, this song ROCKS. It's from Manhunter, Michael Mann's movie based on the first Hannibal Lecter book Red Dragon. One of those "oh yeah, I remember this!" songs.
6. Erasure, "Chains of Love"
Another radio station single (as was the album it was from The Innocents), and another 120 Minutes track. Got into this band with this album.
7. The Jesus & Mary Chain, "Sidewalking"
Another radio station album, if you can believe that. I wasn't a big J&MC fan back then, but this song was quite cool and heavily played on WAMH. Used it to practice my somewhat newly-acquired bass as well.
8. Cocteau Twins, "Blue Bell Knoll"
Distinctly remember being sold on the album of the same name when WMDK (now one of WFNX's satellite stations) played the first side of this album. I believe I bought the album a few weeks later and played the hell out of it. This song evokes a late snowy winter to me, a song for hunkering down and dealing with the cold outside. Also an album I listened to late at night on my walkman, losing myself in the dreaminess of their signature sound. I would soon pick up more of their discography via Nathane and others.
9. Joy Division, "She's Lost Control"
The second side of the JD Substance cassette was heavily listened to at this point, and this is track 1 on side 2. One of the songs I used to use when practicing bass...I was always drawn to Hooky's multi-string, melodical style.
10. Siouxsie & the Banshees, "Peek-a-Boo"
Another radio station single (I bought the album at either Main Street Records in Noho or Al-Bum's in Amherst, if I'm not mistaken). Was never a big Siouxsie fan until 120 played this incessantly. The dummy she shook around in the video for this song reminded me of Robert Smith. Years later when I met her at a signing, I told her this and she and Budgie cracked up.
11. Stump, "Buffalo"
A 120 Minutes track and an album I'm sure I picked up at Al-Bum's. I've posted the video for this one a few times on my LJ already. Yeah, that "swing big bottom" song!
12. Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet, "I'm Tired of Getting Pushed Around"
A radio station single. Not many remember this one...I found out it was the two non-singing guys from Fine Young Cannibals doing this track. Entertainment Tonight used to use it as filler music, and I think that's why I ended up using it.
13. Shriekback, "Go Bang!"
Honestly, why do I always get into bands just as they're about to break up or at least sell out? A silly and slight song that I liked at the time. Not their best, but it's fun. I believe it was put on here to fill out side one, which had very little space left.
SIDE B
1. Wire, "Boiling Boy"
If I recall, I strangely enough got their A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck album at a big discount due to having a coupon I got from a cereal box, of all things. Everyone knows 'Kidney Bingos' from this album, but this one was my favorite from the start, because of the way the song is layered. This may not make sense, but this is one of those songs where it kinda gives me the feeling of being outside, yet not being out in the open (there's a few out there that give me that sort of image). This one in particular being near the top of a hill, under a treeline, watching the valley below. Why, I have no idea.
2. Cocteau Twins, "Carolyn's Fingers"
See "Blue Bell Knoll" above. The big hit from the album, and one that got a lot of airplay on 120 as well as all the college stations (not to mention WMDK as well). There's a very amusing version of The Flying Bohemians attempting to do this song, as I'd learned the riff before a TFB jam session.
3. Til Tuesday, "(Believed You Were) Lucky"
A radio station single...this song didn't stick with me right away until I realized it fit good as an opening song to my kinda-new project at the time, Belief in Fate. I believe the story's title came first (which was a reference to something I'd written in an english class earlier that year), but it fit in quite nicely, considering the song's chorus.
4. The Psychedelic Furs, "President Gas"
Their All of This and Nothing tape really made me appreciate this band, and this song stuck with me for some strange reason...I think partly due to Bush recently winning the '88 election. My first instance of political frustration. Come on, it was one of those "I'm hip because I found a song that fits the times" thing you do when you're a kid like me. ;)
5. Nick Heyward, "You're My World"
Another radio station album. This is one of those songs that's too harmless 80s-pop to be any good, but I found myself liking it...of course, giving it cred because he used to be the lead singer of Haircut 100, and I was retro even then due to my MTV upbringing. I think about this point in the comp, I'd run out of songs to put in that I hadn't already used elsewhere, so the next few were more filler than anything else.
6. Stump, "Charlton Heston"
This one actually got more 120 Minutes play than "Buffalo" did (probably because it's easier on the ears). That, and the frogs. The line "Thou shalt not bonk thy neighbor's wife" cracks me up to this day.
7. Transvision Vamp, "Tell That Girl to Shut Up"
Another radio station album. I never knew until much later that this was a cover, and that the drummer later ended up in Bush. I remember doing a quickie record review for h58 for this album (Pop Art), thinking it was kinda neat, but not the best. Another filler song.
8. Wire, "Ahead"
I'd wanted to do a cover of this song ever since hearing it on Enigma Variations 2 a few years previous, but the only thing I could play was the bass for it. I bought The Ideal Copy a few months after A Bell..., and that's why I like the latter more than this one, but this is by far one of their best songs ever. I know I called WAMH a few times to request this song, and have taped proof of it somewhere...
9. Communards, "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Another radio station single, and another filler song. Being a young'un in the 70s, I think I found the original one of my favorite songs of that decade, which kind of fueled the idea of putting this version here.
10. Nik Kershaw, "Wouldn't It Be Good"
Another filler...I think I got this song from a UK pop compilation that I'd found cheap somewhere, and always liked this song.
11. Joy Division, "Atmosphere"
No matter what, this song had to be the last song on the compilation, because of its 'ending theme' quality. There's a scene in Belief in Fate, partially based on a dream I'd had, in which this song was playing in the background while I emptied out my locker at the end of the school day, and passing by a lot of friends on the way out...a sort of subconscious 'I'm leaving them' sort of thing, which I incorporated into that book. My #2 favorite song of that year, mostly because of this dream. Also where the compilation title comes from.