At the mercy of a collegue's iPod.
It's not all bad news.
Heard Galaxie 500 again for the first time in ten years.
First time on a stereo that is, cos Jim used them on his short movie.
"Don't let your youth go to waste."
That's Jonathon Richman that is!
Met Richman in 1988 and feverishly shook his hand.
He was rather blinded/puzzled by my shm-indie adulation.
But there's a nakedness to that Modern Lovers stuff.
Also saw Galaxie 500 back in the eighties.
Upstairs in the Subterranean Club beside Grant Hart and we talked.
Grant dismissed the band as a "one-trick-pony."
There WERE kind of limited.
But I was pleasantly surprised to hear how well they've aged.
That first record on Rough Trade was the one.
Damon and Naomi now isn't it?
Plagueing poor old Robert Wyatt.
Also listened to Yo La Tengo.
Yikes.
Always thought they looked fabulously unappealing.
But then I found that Hubley's dad was a member of that crucial animation collective UPA.
"Gerald McBoing Boing."
Big finger to Disney.
Cut-out style.
Yeah and I was quite enjoying the music too.
Quite why The Wire like them I dunno?
It's very mellifluous...
But then suddenly I heard something familiar.
"Now what does that remind me of?"
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions!