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Make the most of this period in your life - you still have a load of awesome music from the past you haven't found yet. It's awesome. Once you hit 30 it starts getting much harder to find that same feeling.
It seems like most of my contemporaries are still listening to the same bands they were in the 90's.
I wasn't distracted by day job or family responsibilities so I've kept listening.
Don't stop listening.
Excellent tune- it was a bit of a summer anthem in Sydney in the mid 90's.
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(For the record I like the band, I bought their albums and saw their gigs back then).
I used to have to wade through music magazines.
This year it has been Silversun Pickups, Shinedown, Stone Broken, Puscifier, Show of Hands, Freak Kitchen, Blind Guardian that I've been getting into.
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Somewhat mixed up in my head with The Icicle Works who I also saw around that time - their inclusion of Neil Young covers possibly some indication of the inner turmoil that was leading to the band breaking up around then. Their hit was Love is a Wonderful Colour if anyone wants to YouTube that.
Even The Hoosiers are incorporating some Jellyfish sounds and progressions in their recent stuff.
I've just seen this song came out in 1995. At the risk of making some of you feel old, that is also the year I appeared.
I wish that'd been my birth-week number one or something. All I get instead is Take That.
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"You don't know what you've got till the whole thing's gone. The days are dark and the road is long."
Needless to say, if you like this sort of thing, you should go immediately to the daddies of the whole power pop thing- Big Star.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
It helps to know a little about the band's history- they were from Memphis and signed to Stax records, who were the biggest local label, only they were primarily a soul/R&B label and didn't really have a clue how to market a rock record and were having financial problems that led to issues distributing their albums. So while every music critic in the US thought Big Star were mind-blowingly awesome and didn't mind saying so, their records weren't in the shops!
Suffice to say, this was pretty depressing for the band, and that reflects in the content of Third/Sister Lovers, which they made for lack of anything else to do, with an increasing awareness that it would probably never get released. As such, it's pretty much a random collection of songs that never got edited down to a fixed running order or anything. It circulated as bootleg recordings for over a decade before getting anything like an official release.
If you've got Netflix, the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me is well worth watching.
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Two of the Posies anded up in the later incarnation of Big Star, which is how I became aware of the Posies. I went to see the newly reformed Big Star at the Reading Festival in 1993 and, having read that half of the new Big Star were also in The Posies, and that they also just happened to be playing at Reading on the same day, decided to check them out. I was utterly blown away! Their album Frosting On The Beater is probably the best place to start.
Teenage Fanclub, or The Fannies as they are known by those who love them, are a band who have lazily been compared to Big Star for pretty much their entire career. Alex from Big Star loved them though, just as well, as some of his ashes are now taped to the inside of Norman Blake's OM-18! Bandwagonesque is the album I'd suggest to start with, and then chronologically from then onwards (Thirteen, Grand Prix, Songs From Northern Britain, etc).
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