"I know her-UR-er-er!"

August 9, 2009

That’s pretty depressing. The first Throwing Muses record I owned (and maybe their best) appears to be out of print. Luckily, the MP3 version lives on.

In any case, The Real Ramona is the source of my unquestionably favorite TM song, “Not Too Soon.”

I clearly remember the first time I heard this song — one afternoon (late summer of 1991?) on V89.

I’m sitting there in my office-with-a-door-that-closes, typing away on my SE/30. “Not Too Soon” comes bounding out of the radio (“She…!”), and I’m unconsciously bobbing along.

Then, the little pre-chorus kicks in, and the jungle drums are pounding, and I start spontaneously bouncing up and down in my swivelly office chair.

Then. Then. She sings that dreamy part of the chorus that goes, “Ow wow-wow wow-wow ow ooo-wow ooo-wow ooo-wow…..”

And I totally got a boner. Right there. Sitting in the swivelly office chair in my office-with-a-door-that-closes. Thank God for the office-with-a-door-that-closes.

Yeah. Really good song. Good song, great boner. Great drums and guitar. Great great.

[Obligatory media links…]

Studio Version (1991)

Throwing Muses - Not too Soon

Audio only.

Demo (1984)

Demo 1984

This is awesome. Sounds like the Go-Gos covering the Feelies.

Live (1991)

live in Dusseldorf, Spring, ‘91.

Mostly Unrelated Anecdote

INT. OUR KITCHEN - LAST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

MERLIN enters, carrying ELEANOR, and waving his iPhone around like a winning scratch-off ticket. MADELINE is doing kitchen things

MERLIN

Holy shit, you’ll never believe this.

MADELINE

Mm?

MERLIN

I just heard this song in the car, and I pulled out Shazam because, I’m like, “Is there conceivably a Breeders song I’ve never heard?”

MADELINE

Right.

MERLIN

And, so I run Shazam…

MADELINE

…and it was Metric.

MERLIN

WHAT?!? YES!! Totally! How’d you guess that?

MADELINE

Because the middle part of that Metric song sounds almost exactly like Tanya Donelly. And the rest of it sounds like three different Breeders songs.

MERLIN

YES!! Like, if The Breeders used auto-tune and had expensive shoes. Exactly. Yes. Weird.

[BEAT]

MADELINE

So, were you driving with the baby when you got all excited and held your iPhone up to the speaker?

[BEAT]

MERLIN

Um. No?

[BEAT]

MERLIN

Man, that sure smells good.

So I once saw Throwing Muses open for New Order. O’Connell Center, Gainesville, Florida. Throwing Muses blew the roof of the place, they rocked so hard. Bernard Sumner was blind drunk and forgot the words to some of his songs. Then New Order took a break from itself, which was probably a wise idea.

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