Bands/Artists From Minnesota!

[stocker08]

Irony? It's pointed out in the YouTube comments that this Semisonic video features several physics experiments, yet is titled Chemistry.

Chew on that.

Good album....but I can't remember any other songs than this one on the radio. I think that 'One True Love' written and performed with Carole King was easily the best song on the record. 'She's Got My Number' is a really good song too.

 

[stocker08]

John Wozniak of Marcy Playground is from Minneapolis. Band is actually named after the Marcy Arts Elementary School (that he attended) which is only a handful of blocks from Nicollet Island. Underrated band, imo.

 

[tikited]

John Wozniak of Marcy Playground is from Minneapolis. Band is actually named after the Marcy Arts Elementary School (that he attended) which is only a handful of blocks from Nicollet Island. Underrated band, imo.

One of my best friends was buddies with him in elementary school. Told him that the song, Sex and Candy made his career. Amazing what a song can do.

 

[stocker08]

One of my best friends was buddies with him in elementary school. Told him that the song, Sex and Candy made his career. Amazing what a song can do.

The very definition of a one hit wonder. That's despite the fact that 'Sex and Candy' isn't even the best song on that album.

 

[Ope3]

I'm not entirely positive....but I think "terrestrial" radio stations have to abide by certain rules. Like certain record companies only allow singles to be played....which is why you rarely hear stations from straying from a certain basket of songs for a particular artist. I also wonder how much freedom the on air DJs actually have in picking individual songs.

Obviously.....satellite stations have different deals in place and are allowed more free range.



Featured on 'Dear Rosemary'....which may be my favorite song off of 'Wasting Light'.....which is an excellent album.

Revisiting the article/interview, I love this quote:

"Hüsker Dü, which was Bob Mould’s original band, had this sense of classic melody - it was almost like a punk rock band playing Byrds songs, which they actually did when they covered Eight Miles High. But there was an entire sense of emotion, with beautiful melody, which could sometimes be countered with this anger and distortion that was really unusual at the time.”

“I'd seen him play in in 1984 or ’85, but I was just a stage-diving, slam-dancing kid singing along to the songs. I finally got to meet him maybe 10 years ago. I said, ‘I just have to thank you, because I've really taken a lot from your music.’

"And he said, ‘I know’.”

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Here's video of Hüsker Dü freezing their butts off, especially Mould, playing an appropriate song given the weather. Also a version of the Byrds cover referenced.

Ice Cold Ice + 8 Miles High

 

[stocker08]

Here's video of Hüsker Dü freezing their butts off, especially Mould, playing an appropriate song given the weather. Also a version of the Byrds cover referenced.

Ice Cold Ice + 8 Miles High

I was born in 1989. So I have no choice but to file this under 'Never Happened!!!!'

 

[Ope3]

I was born in 1989. So I have no choice but to file this under 'Never Happened!!!!'

1989. My Hüskers t-shirt is older than you.

 

[Ope3]

Dipping into Hüsker Dü nostalgia again, I find this one heartwarming for several reasons.

The video is exactly how I remember the dozen or more Grant Hart post Nova Mob shows that I went to at the Turf, 7th Street or wherever. He would take requests, and unlike most he listened and played them. I have a hard time remembering when I would shout a song, that it would not get played. Even if I requested 2541 just a couple of songs into the performance.

Somehow it translates even to an audience in Belgrade, Serbia, according to the youtube comment. It's a gem from Candy Apple Grey.

Sorry Somehow

 

[Ope3]

Happy Birthday in memory of Grant Hart who would have been 62 today. Here's a wonderful song and video from his vastly underrated Good News for Modern Man. A quintessential Minnesota visual and musical artist.

Nobody Rides for Free

 

[Ope3]

I never travel far,
without a little Big Star.

The Replacements on their reunion foray with Alex Chilton in 2014.

 

[Frink]

I recently moved to NE Mpls. Pretty sure my mail man is Har Mar Superstar.

 

[tikited]

I recently moved to NE Mpls. Pretty sure my mail man is Har Mar Superstar.

Delivery with a song.

 

[Ope3]

Daniel Corrigan is the photographic artist most renowned for Minnesota bands and those passing through.

Here's a famous shot of The Replacements on an elevator in Coffman Union. There was still a plaque (near Great Hall) last I checked a few years ago commemorating the moment.



Cool article in Pitchfork:

The Man Who Shot All of Minneapolis’ Sounds Photos

After 35 years as the Twin Cities’ go-to music photographer, Daniel Corrigan looks back with the collection Heyday, previewed here alongside an interview with First Avenue’s in-house shooter.

pitchfork.com