Nugget of the Day - Other Bright Colors

Southern jangle pop from Carrboro, North Carolina, 1987:

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I had a friend/girlfriend in high school who raved about this band at every opportunity. They were, like ... the alternative to ... Waxing Poetics, I guess.

If memory serves, she never got around to making me a tape of their stuff. And then the next thing you know, she was off listening to the Beastie Boys.

Ha! Waxing Poetics are in my queue of things to post at some future date.

I still have a Waxing Poetics cassette languishing in a trunk somewhere. Mike Mills from ... err ... the Hindu Love Gods ... did the production duties if memory serves.

I lived in Virginia back in the 80s and so The New South© was practically next door.

The Kilkenny Cats were also a part of all that post-R.E.M. mumble jumble. Some of the bands were better than others.

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It was a weird time. I remember quite distinctly that a ton of hairband crapola got nuked off right off the map by The Beastie Boys. So it was sort of a lose/lose situation. I really hated the Beasties at the time. Either they got better ... or I got used to them. Looking back, I guess it was better than Dokken. Blech!

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Still on the lookout for a copy of Big Plans For Everybody.



Post Edited (11-08-13 18:10)

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