Oh yeah, I was going to make a sandwich...
Cruel School (1979)
More or less power pop. More pop than power, but still very pleasant songs that you can sing along with by a little band from Madison, Wisconsin that went by the name of Spooner.
It's the sort of stuff that you might pass over in any record bin. The outsides are pretty nondescript and the band photo doesn't really make them look particularly "cool". You might expect a subpar bar band or something even lamer based merely on that.
Fortunately this is not the case.
Where You Gonna Run? (1980)
Spooner made a number of records, toured the Midwest, and had their own label for themselves and other local bands. And came and went before the 80s were over.
If they have any cause for notice it's because the drummer for the band was Butch Vig who produced Nirvana's "Nevermind" and played drums and with the guitarist Duke Erikson hooked up with a Scot expat Shirley Manson to form Garbage.
But here are the first recordings of the future famous people in the first incarnation of the studio that would make the record that defined the early 90s.
I actually prefer this myself, but I'm a sucker for a Farfisa.
I moved from Wisconsin to Georgia in the early 80's. You moved from early 80's Georgia to Wisconsin in these two posts. It's like my personal history in reverse. I never saw Spooner or the Side Effects, but I thank you for their music.
ReplyDeleteTimes and places. Georgia in the 90s was pretty lively with the Elephant 6 bands though.
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