If music and I went to couples therapy and I was asked when I started to notice my feelings for music changing, I’d have to say that it was when the idea of an all day (or multiple day) music festival went from sounding awesome to sounding like torture. How exactly did I get from hitchhiking to the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991 to see Ice T and Jane’s Addiction to hearing the lineup for Coachella and saying “you couldn’t pay me enough to do see that”? I’m not that old.
I was reminded of this because I read that Mission of Burma is playing the Pitchfork Music Fest again this year. If I were in the Chicago area I might lay my feelings for Pitchfork Media aside (they are partly to blame for my current hatred of music) and consider buying a ticket just to see Mission of Burma. I was too young to see them in their original 80’s incarnation and when they came to my town after reuniting a few years ago I was unable to make the show. There’s a distinct difference between Mission of Burma and most other reunited 80’s acts is the fact that they are releasing new material that is at least as good as their early output. Compare the two songs below the first is from 1981 and the second from 2006, that’s a quarter century book ended by a sonic ass kicking; click on the links to hear them.
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver mp3 (from Signals calls and Marches 1981)
2wice mp3 (from Obliterati 2006)
Mission of Burma on eMusic
Friday, March 28, 2008
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2 comments:
I feel you on the all day music festival things. The year Depeche Mode played Coachella everyone expected me to run out and buy tickets because they're my favorite band but I basically said "i dont care if Jesus Christ himself is the headliner and they're handing out 100 dollar bills at the door, I'm not going"
I did two Lollapaloozas myself, I was too "young" to go to the first one, and I'm bummed to have missed it.
@stephanie it probably wasn't as good as I recall it being.
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