Like, I want to meet that guy who ran into a guy in McDonald's and chatted him up in line who said "yeah, I'm in a band, we're playing here tonight" and comped him a ticket and BOOM it was Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on the 1996 CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC tour or something.
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This one is beautiful.https://twitter.com/elizabethbelsky/status/1418993754686558222 …
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I have only one good story myself: Mrsoteric and I were driving around the Chicago 'burbs in 2007 with the radio on, when a great song came on the radio, then the DJ followed up with "and he's playing at the Riviera this weekend! So we said "screw it" and bought tickets...
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We drive up northside to the show, Mrsoteric stands in line to get in, I stroll around the corner to the alley to smoke a cig, and up comes a guy dressed in formal three-piece suit, says "hey, you here for the show?" I respond, yes, I am. "Hope you enjoy it!" he says.
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We get to our seats and wait and then when the headliner comes out I realize: I was talking to Andrew Bird, at a concert we explicitly went to SEE Andrew Bird, because we heard "Heretics" from ARMCHAIR APOCRYPHA on the radio. One of the best shows of my entire life. Pretty cool.
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I had no idea what he looked like. I plead ignorance. I didn't even have the album yet, even though I'd ordered it online (Amazon Prime was not then yet a thing).
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Incidentally, ARMCHAIR APOCRYPHA is one of the best, most beautiful, most mysterious and haunting albums of the entire '00s. Here's "Heretics," but the entire thing is worth not only your time but your repeated attention:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8UZz0BQXA …
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So much of my musical taste is stuff that I grant reduces to personal idiosyncrasy and taste (Mrsoteric cannot understand why I love The Velvet Underground so much, for example, and I get it). But the melody and arrangement of "Heretics" is immortal. Not sure how you can hate it.
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A related offshoot of this thread is obviously "artists you discovered before they got big." The easy answer for me might be Radiohead but RH were already big enough by late 1995 when I *really* (and not "Creep") discovered them. The real honest answer is Arcade Fire.
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A college friend had given me a burnt CD of their first EP. I really dug it! (Still holds up.) I'm back at home, they're on tour playing a small Washington DC venue, first act on the bill, they OPEN with "Wake Up," it's amazing, nobody but me cares. God I wish there was a tape.
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This would've been 2003 or 2004 at Black Cat. They were bottom-billed with other more hyped Canadian bands (it was a "Canada Sound" thing). I remember various bandmembers beating each other on the head rhythmically while still keeping the beat. Wild stuff. You had to be there.
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