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Posted by pchippy on 2008-04-26 16:35:34 +0000

At this point in 1993? I was listening to Steeleye Span, Leonard Cohen, Lyle Lovett's Large Band, and Kate Bush.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-26 16:48:12 +0000

1993: Jawbox, Screeching Weasel, Embrace, Pavement, fIREHOSE.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-26 16:50:04 +0000

A lot of Big Black and Foetus.

Posted by Mouse on 2008-04-26 22:22:40 +0000

The Beatles

Posted by Rory_Stark on 2008-04-27 04:44:51 +0000

Black Flag The Mahavishnu Orchestra Fugazi...."In On the Kill Taker" came out that year and I was probably getting over Phish The list goes on and on.... Smashing Pumpkins...Pure Guava.....

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-27 06:13:40 +0000

I'm really enjoying this - thanks! In '93 I'd only just started listening to American indie/hardcore, so I was still heavily in my anglo-gothica/androgeny/psychedelia phase: the Cure Depeche Mode Sisters of Mercy Dead Can Dance Current 93 the Chameleons Morrissey Pulp Suede Robyn Hitchcock Syd Barrett Plus scary/funny German industrial (see video above). He's got a hold of your legs and he drags you to the bottom of the bog (boop boop) the bog (boop boop). Taking over the Indy 500 show, combined with my brief romance with a Fugazi/Bad Brains/Bad Religion fan, revolutionised my music taste. Big year, '93.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-27 13:25:17 +0000

Pavement, Primus, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr., Jesus and Mary Chain, and, oh yeah: The Swirlies

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-27 14:02:45 +0000

mmm, teenage fan club... In '93 I was listening to a lot of 60's ska, blue beat, etc. (had my own ska show on the school radio show--totally lacked the planning/discipline necessary to be a dj, now glad i was the dj and not a listener, and glad the cats from the wads weren't calling me), and my roommate's older brother had just sent her Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville which became a big favorite, 'tho then I had to listen to Exile on Main Street again to see if I could figure out what the fuck was going on in her head (still can't, still love both albums). And ween. push those little daisies, dean and gene, push 'em. Also the year that I had a new beau and we both made each other mix tapes at the same time that unbeknownst to us started with 500 miles--clearly we were destined to be together (for at least two weeks). I've since lost his, which is sad, because it was pretty awesome. It also included a man needs a maid as the first song on the second side. I think mine might have had girl I got a date on it--in retrospect it seems clear that two weeks was pushing it.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-27 14:42:32 +0000

Biiiiig belly laughs on that one, virtue. Love it. My '93 dalliance (with the aforementioned Fugazi/Bad Brains/Bad Religion fan) was also fairly star-crossed. One afternoon early on, he played '1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours' for me, saying he "just knew" I'd like Green Day (this was, btw, the year before they 'broke'). Breathless with 'Say Anything'-level romantic euphoria, I asked how, how could he have known I would like them? He looked up at me from rolling a fresh doobie and said, "Because they suck." Um, yeah.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-27 16:08:43 +0000

Nirvana, Fugazi, John Zorn / Naked City, Faith No More, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Sinkhole, Bill Frisell, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman, NOFX, Doc Hopper, Hussy, Rollins Band, Boredoms, Public Enemy, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Butthole Surfers, Ice Cube, Ice T, Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Fly Spinach Fly, Fishbone,

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-27 17:22:01 +0000

Wow. Doc Hopper + Hussy + Fly Spinach Fly = time warp complete.

Posted by mr. mister on 2008-04-27 18:02:30 +0000

Iron Butterfly (red light on while playing in the dorm room and blowing smoke through a bounce tube), Primus, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Steely Dan, Public Enemy, BDP, Slick Rick, I guess I listened to way too much WZLX as a kid.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-27 19:30:40 +0000

Careful, Pamsterdam. Leave Sinkhole out of these equations at your own peril.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-27 21:15:02 +0000

Wow... kinda forgot about Faith No More ("Angel Dust" was a constant) and Fishbone (they dropped "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'l Swear He's the Center of the Universe" in 1993).

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-27 21:58:41 +0000

what was the Swirlies cd that was on TAANG! that had a picture of a little spock -like jr with the word bubble of "Fuck, No" screen-printed on the face of the cd? That was a dorm room fave of Glumac and I. Also: Juliana Hatfield, Lemonheads, Bob Marley (I'm thinking specifically of the 4 cd 'Songs of Freedom' Box set - I listened to the first cd of mostly Marley Jamaicain ska like it was going out of style, although I also really liked the dub version on the box set of 'Coming In From The Cold' - great tune), Quicksand, Hal Wilner comps (W.S. Burroughs / Sonic Youth 'Spare Ass Annie' thing, as well as the 'Weird Nightmare' comp Wilner put together paying tribute to Charles Mingus using Harry Partch Instruments, Chuck D, Henry Rollinds et. al) Ministry, Material, Dead Kennedys Was I still listening to the Bosstones in '93? I suspect that I was, but maybe not as much as if it was 91 or 92.

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-27 22:19:03 +0000

(in alphabetical order...) Bikini Kill, Blur, Christmas, Dead Milkmen, Doc Hopper, Duck Duck, The Dwarves, Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Hater*, Jerky Boys**, Liz Phair, Mudhoney, The Muffs, Redd Kross, R.E.M., The Tragically Hip, Urge Overkill, Voivod. * which is weird, because this is the only thing I've ever liked by anyone associated with Mother Love Bone or Soundgarden. Still, "Who Do I Kill?"... awesome. ** LOTS of Jerky Boys.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-27 22:26:21 +0000

Voivod! Tommy Is Pretty Much Right About Stuff. 'Nothingface' and 'Dimension Hatross' were always personal faves of mine.

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-27 22:50:15 +0000

I thought 'Outer Limits' was underrated, too, which was '93 or so. One of the weirdest shows I ever saw was Voivod headlining the Paradise in 1989/90 over Soundgarden. Opening band was Faith No More. Soundgarden and FNM were just on the cusp of getting big... the set order would have been reversed if the show were 3 months later.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-28 00:59:47 +0000

Sounds like a cool show. Infinitely jealous.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-28 04:06:19 +0000

No, you'd better watch it, DU. I didn't include Sinkhole because they are my favorite NH band of all time (presuming you'll allow me the conundrum-creating AGs in the Sinkhole timeline), and easily transcended the UNH student scene. The other 3 I haven't even given a passing thought since, say, 1996. I am shocked and aghast that you'd think anything else.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-28 04:43:10 +0000

Well, that and the fact that Sinkhole didn't really start to pick up steam until 1994.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-28 05:09:32 +0000

Sha-ZAM! Ka-POW! Welcome to the Sinkhole's Biggest Fan Smackdown, where dyedon8 has just delivered a killer blow to both the until-now undefeated MF DU and the featherweight (ed. note: ahem) newcomer to the ring, pamsterdam. Can either of them come back from this? MF DU may have some fight left in him, but pamsterdam is certainly down for the count.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-28 05:40:46 +0000

Hoo-ha!

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-28 10:56:57 +0000

Well, ya know, he had to have been smokin' something to say that to you...

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-28 11:21:17 +0000

Bah, I've always liked my men the same way I like my chocolate: dark(-humored) & bitter. :o) Plus I think he was still peeved about BGM taking the piss out of him when they first met: BGM: So what music do you listen to? The boy: Uh, you know, Bad Brains... um, Bad Religion... BGM: Bad Company? Bad English? Do you only listen to bad music? Sounds like it. Hell hath no fury like a Will whose Grace just got herself a new boy-toy. At the least the boy's crack about Green Day was delivered with a devilish smirk.

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-28 12:43:28 +0000

I don't understand--what's BGM?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-28 12:47:14 +0000

Sorry, that's Big Gay Mark. I felt like he needed a nickname... he named himself Hexeba during high school, but I'm not sure that still works. He was at the Burren when you & I last met up.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-28 13:06:54 +0000

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-28 13:08:36 +0000

bounce tube. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-28 13:23:34 +0000

The disc with the "Fuck, No" cartoon was "Blonder Tongue Audiobaton." Aparently, the cartoonist is the drummer for current marginal Matador Records band Lavender Diamond. Whoever wrote the Swirlies wikipedia entry has a nice wry sense of humor.

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-28 16:35:24 +0000

lots of R.E.M., Poi Dog Pondering, Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, Drivin'N'Cryin', Beastie Boys, Violent Femmes, Dead Milkmen, C&C Music Factory, Rupaul, Green Day, Medeski Martin & Wood, Colonel Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit, traditional Israeli music, Cypress Hill, James, Seal, Madonna I'm sure there's MUCH more that I can't remember right now, but that was freakin' 15 years ago! Definitely went to at least one Sinkhole show at the Mid-East in 1994/5. I think Tracy Bonham was on a bill somewhere around then, too.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-28 17:06:17 +0000

umm, I suck. Can I be excused? -45 scenr points...

Posted by Thurston Moore on 2008-04-28 17:21:09 +0000

Get outta the scene!

Posted by jbcardinale on 2008-04-28 17:42:52 +0000

Disney Songs tuh dum, tee dee .....

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-28 18:00:21 +0000

M M Bosstones, Op Ivy, Bad Brains, Third World Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Cyprus Hill, PE, Souls of Mischief Faith No More, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth Led Zep bootlegs, Mid era Beatles Big Black, Foetus, Ministry Meatshake, Dorm Damage, The Arrival of Horatio Still disliked Phish, the Stones, and The Dead.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-28 18:10:00 +0000

Weren't you in The Arrival of Horatio?

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-28 19:30:59 +0000

Spring '93? I had a new roommate, his music collection wasn't too dissimilar from the previous roommate's, except he did not fall asleep listening to "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste", and we had a serious lack of Neil Diamond: Fugazi, MM Bosstones, Ministry, NIN, Rollins Band, Primus, Ween (The Pod), Nirvana Typical straight white male stuff for Spring '93 I saw The Swirlies perform in the basement of a house, along with The Iowa Beef Experience.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-29 12:35:39 +0000

I had to blow some dust off the tapes to help jog my memory, but: Even back int the day I was both poor and cheap and never bought anything. (Is anyone surprised at all?) But these were the kind of tapes I owned: Indigo Girls Suzanne Vega Liz Phair The Specials The local UNH hippie bands: Thanks to Gravity, and what was the name of the other one? PS-- I never was a music buyer, but went to a lot of live shows.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-29 12:55:15 +0000

Pondering Judd. My roommate had a "thing" with the really hairy guy. No, the REALLY hairy guy. Waking up to see him - in all his glory - lying on her bed one morning nearly scarred me for life. Or maybe you mean Percy Hill? With the stuttering lead singer? Jeremy. Sweet guy. The band was named after his grandfather. But, um, I hate hippies. Honest. Hate 'em. :o) (I used to tape all my music for free in WUNH's production studio)

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-29 13:01:36 +0000

I don't know if I ever saw Pondering Judd. It was Percy Hill I was talking about. And Jeremy-- one of the sweetest. I had a hardcore crush on him. And about the hippies-- I think, Pamsterdam, you need to take a long, hard, honest look at yourself, you doobie smoking vegetarian Amsterdam resider. (but you DO shower-- that's a difference)

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-29 13:06:35 +0000

If John Lydon ever sees this thread, my chances with him are totally blown. JOHNNY!!!!!!!! (I shower a LOT.)

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-29 13:07:53 +0000

OMG, Pondering Judd are still around! It's not too late for you to see them...

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-29 13:11:34 +0000

Oh, and this Wikipedia article reminded me that Tom from Percy Hill lived in my dorm and voted for Perot. Bad Brains boy & I took great pleasure in thanking him for his vote "for Clinton". Ah, back in the heady days when I felt like a single vote made a difference...

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-29 13:41:27 +0000

What a completely original political idea!

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-29 14:02:26 +0000

I forgot how much Mighty Mighty Bosstones I listened to that year. The first 9 months of 93 I worked the 6AM-2PM shift at a diner. The "Where'd You Go?" and "Ska-Core, The Devil & More" EPs were in constant rotation. "Do Something Crazy" went on _every_day_ at 2 as my heading for home theme song.

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-29 14:07:03 +0000

I certainly went overboard on Devil's Night Out. Which I owned on a dupe tape... sometime when I'm 65 I'll spend $500 to buy the LP. I must have brought a cache of tapes to school, with a Walkman(tm).

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-29 14:20:42 +0000

Tom Petty

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-29 16:47:12 +0000

I remember listening to "They Came To Boston" on Storrow a bunch of times.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-29 17:10:25 +0000

re: devil's Night Out: "The Red Sox, They're Getting Roasted - that's For Sure..."

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-29 17:12:28 +0000

Um, I'm pretty sure that photo was taken WAY before 1993 Mr. Moore, you old coot.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-29 18:49:52 +0000

Nope. But I was in the 'Felix Unger Group' which essentially played the same type of stuff, had the same sax player, had fewer originals but filled the same niche at college.

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-29 23:57:19 +0000

No irony there.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-30 06:16:07 +0000

Not a bit. The earnest-ness made it better.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-05-20 02:10:26 +0000

So, my freshman year my parents bought me a mini-fridge for my dorm room. I put a few especially "meaningful" stickers on it and bought a Dr Pepper magnet/bottle opener at the 7-11. The magnet has been on every fridge I've used since, but the mini-fridge I donated to my co-workers at the UNH library when I moved to Boston 6 years later, in 1997. I just got Facebook-friended by one of those co-workers, who sent me this: Bizarre. I wonder what he keeps in it... presumably not $3.99 fruit-flavored sparkling wine and day-old DHOP pizza.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-05-20 23:08:00 +0000

I have that wunh sticker on my turntable. Right next to the spice girls and sinkhole.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-05-22 13:05:34 +0000

He looks like this now: Oh, and by the way, he's my birthday twin. Except much, much OLDER. Obviously. I mean, ancient. His hands are even scarier than Madonna's.

Posted by G lib on 2008-05-22 14:04:37 +0000

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONES FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHM!

Posted by MF DU on 2008-05-22 14:08:52 +0000

ever notice how you never see Thurston Moore and Burt Bacharach together (not to mention their preference to be photographed at Pianos)

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-05-22 14:31:00 +0000

F*cking hilarious!