in a time filled mostly without the luxury of ipods and other like devices, we were forced to either lug around caselogic’s full of cassette tapes or cd’s. or if you were like me, a shoe box full of cassettes and a carefully handpicked crop of cd’s for the days driving adventures. there were those times that neither of those options were available, thus we were forced to listen to the….radio. it mostly sucked, but if you were lucky to live within earshot, or a stiff breeze, of your local college radio station then it wasnt so bad, or so i have been told. unfortunately, at the time, i wasnt living near such a university nor did the winds bring one my way. even though i lived near columbia college, i could never pick up a decent signal. honestly, if you weren’t total fuckin music dork/snob, radio at the time wasn’t so bad. in fact, it was pretty bearable. i never once thought to myself, “hey i can get used to this radio stuff,” mind you, but i must admit that when candlebox came across the waves, i sang along. so, without much further adieu here is part one of a four part mix of what you may have found on “alternative” radio in the 90’s.
from roughly 1994 until 2000, hip hop was completely dead to me. it wasn’t until i came across aesop rock’s float and the deltron 3030 record that my interest in the genre began to flourish for a possible round two, round one being from ‘88 - ‘94. during the younger days of hip hop, i fully immersed myself into the music and it made a big impact on my later listening habits. but i got truly tired of the inconsistency. i could never depend on an artist/crew to put out two or three succesive records of good to great material. it was more like one great record, the rest, pure shit. this lead to distancing myself from all hip hop. even though i have gotten back into hip hop, i could never fully give myself over to hip hop as i did in younger days, for fear of feeling betrayed yet again. but the select artists i have found, since the reawakening, have made, collectively, a pretty big impact on my soul. quality over quantity.
in case you need a reintroducing, here’s a killer mix to help you on your way. thanks aesop real.
seeing this, this being an upcoming silkworm documentary, kinda made me feeling quite nostalgic and even a little misty-eyed. listening to everyone from albini to malkmus to robbie fulks to adam reach(touch n’ go) speaking, so eloquently and passionately, the words that i have always thought, but couldn’t quite articulate, started me thinking about their music quite a bit. i know their footprint on musical history is quite small, but their impact, to the people that love em, is huge. the strange thing about silkworm is that they sound like no one and no one sounds like them - which is quite the feat considering they’re a 3 piece with nothing more than your standard guitar, bass and drums setup. what made them incredibly special is that, like fulks said in the trailer, “there’s no costumes, there’s no act, there’s no schtick.” they were just three dudes that made incredibly heartfelt and honest music no matter how deep you had to scratch to get there.
more info on the silkworm documentary couldn’t you wait can be found here and here on myspace. also, here is a collection of interviews including tweedy, malkmus and albini.
here is a brief introduction to the silkworm catalogue, most of which can be found on emusic or get off yr lazy arse and get down to your local shop and pick up an album or two. what a novel fucking idea.
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