Tag: progressive

• Tunesday: 1988 Throwing Muses–Juno, Bright Yellow Gun & More

  Kristen Hersh and her band, Throwing Muses, have been among my very favorites since I initially heard the song “Juno” from their first full length album, House Tornado, grind it’s way out of my stereo speakers back in 1988.  I’ve begun to realize what a magnificent year that was for my musical tastes–maybe there was […]

  JunkChuck

  April 28, 2015

  Tunesday

  1980s, alternative, breeders, college radio, house tornado, indie, juno, kristin hersh, music, pixies, poetic, progressive, punk, rhode island, rock, tanya donelly, throwing muses

• Tunesday: Violent Femmes–Gone Daddy Gone

  I was in tenth grade. Xylophone solo?  Hell, yes.  This song is even better now than it was 30 years ago.  I used to listen to these guys for hours.

  JunkChuck

  April 21, 2015

  Tunesday, Uncategorized, video

  alternative, gone daddy gone, i just want to make love to you, muddy waters, progressive, punk, Tunesday, violent femmes

• Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Violent Femmes

  Like a lot of these videos, this is more brillance from the eighties, which weren’t at all like cheese-eating high schools kids who watch cable replays of  “Pretty In Pink” think they were like.  The Violent Femmes were a taut little Indie band from Wisconsin who wrote short, sweet, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sly little […]

  JunkChuck

  March 28, 2014

  Uncategorized

  1980s, alternative, daddy, eighties, femmes, gone, gone gone, guitar, milwaukee, modern, music, progressive, punk, rock, roll, violent, wisonsin