The Connells - '74-7'5 vs Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

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Fuck, that 2015 video hit me pretty hard.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link

xpost it's more around the Tidewater region, not NoVa.

Yerac, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link

I feel like NoVa was more towards, DC, Dischord, TeenBeat etc.

Yerac, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link

I just checked and the Connells, decades later, are STILL hitting the southeast club circuit pretty hard!

05/16/19 - Wilson, NC - Vollis Simpson Whirlygig Park

05/31/19 - Durham, NC - Motorco

06/21/19 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa

06/22/19 - Charlottesville, VA - The Jefferson Theater

07/12/19 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore

07/13/19 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse

08/29/19 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater

09/20/19 - Greensboro, NC - The Blind Tiger

09/21/19 - Asheville, NC - Tour De Fat

12/06/19 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm

12/07/19 - Cayce, SC - Steel Hands Brewing

12/13/19 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cats Cradle

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link

I saw them this past summer and they were pretty much the same as they've always been

Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link

Fuck, that 2015 video hit me pretty hard.

Same.

Discovered them on the More Mondo comp of North Carolina bands. "Darker Days" really struck me and I tracked down the album, which never really clicked. Need to figure out if the MM recording is different than the album.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link

I'm fairly certain that the MM version is the same. BUT.

There is a UK and a USA version of Darker Days. I have them both but I don't think they were remixed (different track sequence, and if memory serves, maybe an added song on one or the other).

Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link

I was in Louisiana at the time and we had Cowboy Mouth and Better Than Ezra doing the college circuit. I was so envious of the south east to have better bands than we had. I'd take the worst Connells song over the best songs from either of those two bands.

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link

There is a UK and a USA version of Darker Days. I have them both but I don't think they were remixed (different track sequence, and if memory serves, maybe an added song on one or the other).

TVT reissued it in the US when Boylan Heights came out.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 December 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link

Can confirm this song was a massive hit here in Germany. I and everyone I know has never heard anything else by the Connells tho.

Duke, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link

Sorry I was living in the UK when this was released, so it was certainly a huge hit there.

Duke, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link


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