Roaring fuzzbass and the unmistakable trainwreck sound of a dive-bar mix can’t hide the great melodies and harmonies of “Girlfriend”. Eric’s Trip weave a tale populated by tall-dark trees and spirits under rocks, but this is not so much the soundtrack to a dungeons-and-dragons epic, but more of a took-too-much-acid-in-the-woods-with-my-girlfriend-and-stole-her-car story.
Eric’s Trip
“Girlfriend” (download mp3)
from “The Eric’s Trip Show – Recorded Live In Concert 1991-1996″
(teenage USA recordings)
“Girlfriend (Live)“ (play)
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Christie Front Drive – “Fin” mp3
Among the many ways teh Inertnets have completely changed the world of music, you have these band sites which become memorials to groups that are no longer active. This allows people to discover their music long after the chance to see them at a sweaty little club has passed. One such band in the vast seas of indie rock is (was) Christie Front Drive from Denver, CO. Packing an earnest sincerity into their power-pop grungy emo rock, this foursome left a lovely record behind which you can now hear or purchase online. And that’s cool, man. Check this song out – gr8 composition and grand production, with some really creative guitar work. I guess they reached their “Fin” but they live on in my sound system today.
Christie Front Drive
“Fin” (mp3)
from “S/T”
(Magic Bullet)
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Before heavy metal was called “metal” and got all speeded up, it sounded heavy – like great shards of metal colliding and melting together in the sky. Loving Thunder‘s music is like that. This sonically massive title track from their “Photographing the Wild” album is a stunner. Very Seattle in the guitar department. There’s still something in the water there which makes electric guitars sound more beastly and immense. The drums and riffs are more Zep than Nirvana, and the vocal is delivered in a beautifully creepy octave harmony like monks gone to the dark side. A quote on their myspace says simply, “The future, as envisioned by teenage stoners, in the 70′s.” Pretty f00kin accurate.
Loving Thunder
“Photographing the Wild” (download mp3)
from “Photographing the Wild”
(Hot Dog City Record Co.)
“Photographing the Wild“ (play)
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