― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
when i lived in chicago, my wife worked for Anderson Consluting and they gave us a free concert at where ever the Bulls play. it was Natalie Merchant. we went and laughed at all fucking, yuppie consulting fuckwads. Merchant opened the show by saying, "chicago, you guys sure do like your BEEEEEEEEEEEEER!" and just kept saying "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER" really long and drawn out like that. of course she was making fun of the audience, but they really did like their beer, so they cheered along.
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Alex, the Newport is a real shithole though, you gotta admit.
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't have any Paul Simon jokes, but my reaction to the 'four years prostrate' line has always been 'in your case, it was probably at least six'.
― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
come back when you can spell 'portentous'actually, I was almost going to write 'pretentious', but that would be mean-spirited and unfair as well as being a cliché
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
well, as long as you also dislike fugazi
my reaction to the 'four years prostrate' line has always been 'in your case, it was probably at least six'.
it is a terrible line, but they went to Emory. where did you go?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't like prejudice against music/artists that are earnest and/or explicitly political, even if the music isn't good.Okay, it's official, if gabbneb ever disses U2, Bruce Springsteen or the Clash, we have to remind him of this post.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Like you were implying I'm a sexist pig of something.
I'm talking about everyone here, and saying that I think there's a gender dimension, because these artists are being criticized for qualities that male artists are less criticized for.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!ST, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, poorly worded - this was supposed to be an opposition
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't there a rather cool early-90s hip-hop song that sampled "What I Am"?
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
No, that'd be that obvious answer, but it wasn't either of them.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
And as for Natalie Merchant, I fucking HATE her, not only for her insipid music but also for her idiotic remarks back in '86, when she expressed genuine dread that R.E.M., because they were working with Don Gehman, J.C. Mellencamp's producer, were making a "heavy metal album!" Like, huh?!?! What an idiot - she's exactly the kind of person who woulda burst into heartbroken tears at the sight of Bob Dylan's Stratocaster at Newport in '65! 10000 Maniacs and one lunatic.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
It was a Dan Perry kind of post
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Evil One (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the one - thank you!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, this makes me hate them
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I get how people can find "Closer to Fine" cheesy but are there really people who don't see it as a sterling instance of the kind of song it is?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
Great Natalie Merchant:Trouble MeCandy Everybody WantsThese Are Days
Ok Natalie Merchant:Kind & GenerousCarnival
I Hate it Never Want to Hear Again:Wonder
Open to liking it, haven't found the melody after 25 years:Photograph w/REM
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
1-2-3 is my Indigo Girls jam btw
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I meant the s/t btw not Strange Fire
though that's good too
I ride for them through Rites of Passage. "Virginia Wolff"!
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Listening more to s/t, realized that the first songs have few/no drums in a way that keep it from sounding dated.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
a little tambourine and pennywhistle
Which I found out recently is by Irish band Hothouse Flowers!
Old-Skool ILM very much living up to the "bag of dicks" stereotype on this thread.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
Is this truly the closest thing to a general Indigo Girls thread on ILM(??)
I'm realizing, very belatedly, how great they are... but intimidated at the idea of getting a grasp on an act with 15 studio albums (not to mention solo / side projects). Beyond the S/T (which I revisited for the first time since, probably, high school – it made me laugh at how good it is, on a song-by-song basis), and the Best-Of / Essential playlists, any tips on how to "get into them"?
― juristic person (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Light some incense
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Goddamn, for decades now I assumed they were saying "The closer I am to find," which I always assumed was an awkward but deliberate grammatical mistake.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link