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August 27, 2008
Retrohump: the Tastes of Being Pure at Heart
I'm a bit too consumed at the moment to switch gears into serious anthropology mode, so you'll forgive me for diverting Retro this week back towards Friday's Neon Lights show...
Bands are often celebrated for drawing on disparate influences. And sure, every now and again you get a true omnivorous savant like M.I.A. who digests the zeitgeist as a whole and molds it into a cohesive aesthetic, but more often than not, it just turns into a muddled mess. Like I distrust people who claim they like "everything," bands who don't know what they're aiming for a are a recipe for disaster. So it does the heart proud to peruse the svelte "influences" list on the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's MySpace page. Indie-pop rapture in, indie-pop rapture out. A sampling...
Teenage Fanclub - "Everything Flows"
(after a short interview for SNUB TV, 1990)
the Pastels - "Crawl Babies"
Black Tambourine - "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge"
the Ramones - "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
(live in Paris, 1980)
and of course...
Nirvana - "Lake of Fire"
(do I need to tell you?)
the Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan"
Sadly, there was no You Tube footage for this indie-pop Rosetta Stone...
My Bloody Valentine - "Paint a Rainbow"
Posted by Jeff Klingman at August 27, 2008 07:50 PM
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