For those of us who believe the first Throwing Muses album is one of the Top Five Most Important First Albums of All Time (and probably also believe that "The Fat Skier" is one of the Top Five Most Important First EPs of All Time), Kristin Hersh's new memoir is A+ essential reading. The best part is it's only about a year-when she was 18, becoming an indie rock star and getting pregnant-so there can be like 25 other memoirs!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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I almost didn't buy their first record... but since I spent most of 88-89 being obsessed with the 4AD catalogue, I shelled out for it (Import LP'$! = Ways to bankrupt your High School chump change fund in a hurry.) ...One less thing to add to the long list of regrets.
I got as far as the words "In Hersh's new memoir, Rat Girl..." in the Slate piece this morning before I opened another tab and ordered my copy.
I am trying to figure out what the other Top Five Most Important First EPs would be.
Nervous Breakdown
Come On Pilgrim
Chronic Town
Minor Threat
Sonic Youth
_The Real Ramona_ is still the watershed for me, because that's what I discovered first. (I probably shouldn't have been listening to "Hook in Her Head" as a 10 year old, but I was a weird, precocious kid. Oh, 120 Minutes, what did you do to me?)
And 50 Ft. Wave was/is highly underrated. Can't say I spent as much time with the last solo effort, but I love K. Hersh all around. Can't wait to devour this book - I've always wondered how pulled everything off/together at this time in her life.
Without Throwing Muses, there would have been no Pixies. DISCUSS.
Wherewherewhere is the "120 Minutes" box set?
It's just that mean ole Texas sun / It makes me dizzy dizzy dizzy in my head
Last December, I was at a crappy pan-Asian restaurant and "Santa Claus" came on the stereo and it MADE MY WEEK.
I agree with all of these statements. Kristen Hersh/Throwing Muses were huge for me as an 18 year old and obviously beyond. I love it all, even the stuff that's not one of the five most important debuts of all time.
I did not think I could love Choire any more than I already do, and then this. Sigh.