I think the song Galileo, by Indigo Girls is near musical perfection. I love every single thing about that song, and it would definitely rank high on my top 10-20 favorite-songs-of-all-time list, if such a list indeed existed. Can you hear the bongo drums?
That's some fabulous tuneage there. REM, Talking Heads, Jane's Addicition, Pixies...oh, yeah. (I used to have a 4x5 poster of "Nothing's Shocking" on my dorm wall way back in college.) And "Rites of Passage" is easily the IG's best album. I've been partial to "Ghost," and I think their version of "Romeo & Juliet" outdoes the Dire Straits' original by a mile (something quite rare with remakes).
I only own three of those. One on cd, one on vinyl, and one as part of a 2-cd set with a bunch of other stuff. I think that Sonic Youth one was the first cd I ever bought used (at a pawn shop). I didn't keep it for long.
Yeah, the IG's did a wonderful job covering "Romeo & Juliet". I was haunted by the "Ghost" song for years. That album got me through some hard times. If I ever were to make a soundtrack for my life, these are the albums I would draw from.
I also really love the Grateful Dead but I'm not really crazy about any of their studio albums, just their live stuff.
Listening to Washing Machine still kind of reminds me of the time in which I bought it (1996, I was 15 and purchased it on like my 3rd or 4th trip to Checkered Records in Canton) and played it a billion times because it was one of the coolest, neatest records I owned. Of course, I found my first My Dad is Dead album on the same day, and my enjoyment of that has outlasted my enjoyment of pretty much anything Sonic Youth did (not that I don't still really like Washing Machine.)
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Thanks for the chance to rave.
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I also really love the Grateful Dead but I'm not really crazy about any of their studio albums, just their live stuff.
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