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On Fridays this year we ask...
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box we have:
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
I bought this tape a couple of years ago, and the first time I played it was during a rather hideous drive to Whitby across the moors, at night, in extremely thick fog. In between peering into the murk, trying to keep an eye on the white line and remain mindful of the potential for suicidal sheep, I sang along to their goofy songs of g'rages and surfing. When we got to Buddy Holly I'll swear that even the fog lightened up.
I don't often use the word goofy, but somehow it always seems to sum up Weezer. Entertaining, likeable, catchy... but goofy.
Incidentally, a few months ago everybody was all about the video for Pork and Beans. Which was all very well, if you like your humour self-referential, but it was never a patch on the lovable video for Keep Fishin'. Which was also, I reckon, a better song.
Weezer - Surf Wax America [mp3]
[Poll #1293144]
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box we have:
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
I bought this tape a couple of years ago, and the first time I played it was during a rather hideous drive to Whitby across the moors, at night, in extremely thick fog. In between peering into the murk, trying to keep an eye on the white line and remain mindful of the potential for suicidal sheep, I sang along to their goofy songs of g'rages and surfing. When we got to Buddy Holly I'll swear that even the fog lightened up.
I don't often use the word goofy, but somehow it always seems to sum up Weezer. Entertaining, likeable, catchy... but goofy.
Incidentally, a few months ago everybody was all about the video for Pork and Beans. Which was all very well, if you like your humour self-referential, but it was never a patch on the lovable video for Keep Fishin'. Which was also, I reckon, a better song.
Weezer - Surf Wax America [mp3]
[Poll #1293144]
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(Loved the Keep Fishin' video - hadn't seen that before.)
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