So far I have really enjoyed them and will be at the 930 Club show! My parents were not cool enough (and possibly a few years older than your parents) to listen to stuff like Echo & the Bunnymen.
Oh man!!! I grew up on Echo and the Bunnymen! My dad was obsessed with their psychedelic tendencies, but I went nuts for their post-punk early days as a teenager. I have this memory of being 17, lying in bed late at night and listening to Heaven Up Here and Porcupine!!! And this was back in 2002. Ocean Rain is a fucking masterpiece. Enjoy discovering those amazing albums.
Hold up - they're coming to the club? When?!
And if my dad was still alive, he'd be 64 years old. My mom is 63. I seem to have parents older than most of my friends who are around my age (late 20's/early 30's...I'm 30 going on 31) Anyhow, I figure I have pretty cool parents or at least my dad was super cool. (True story - he got me into Sonic Youth when I was 10, but to my mom's credit, she got me into Aretha Franklin and INXS by the age of 8. And both of them got me into Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Pretenders, and the B-52's while I was still in elementary school)
Okay as for what I've been listening to lately - still on that primal scream kick, but a friend reminded me that I should listen to Elliott Smith. He made a post on Facebook about getting XO on vinyl and I lamented about how I remember listening to various songs off of that during the 8th grade when it was first released. (While my peers were listening to Brittney Spears, I was all about real music ha.) Anyhow, I said something to my friend about how it's been ages since I've listened to a full Elliott Smith album. I pretty much stopped listening to any of his songs after he died, because that shit was just so upsetting. These days if a song comes on Sirius XMU, I'll listen and even sing along. But my friend made a great point "So it's been at least 12 years since you've listened to XO or Figure 8?! You need to remind yourself the brilliance of it. There's no better way of keeping someone alive than playing their music!" So last night, I added a few tracks from Either/Or and XO to a playlist and listened. It was strangely refreshing!
