Long ago, I told the story of my first Sunday in the Twin Cities. It was a free day, without job hunting or much of anything to do.

So I drove downtown. I visited First Avenue, had a burger, looked at Murray’s and vowed that someday, when I had a cool job and an awesome girlfriend and had made it in the Twin Cites I was going to get a butterknife steak at Murrays.

And I bought a tape – my first tape in MInneapolis, from my first Minneapols band. The Replacements.

And given my situation, this song seemed apposite…

…and I may have played it a few hundred times in the first week, and thousands more since then.

And this article reminds me – I gotta get down to Murray’s.

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While we’re talking underground? REM hadn’t quite graduated to annoying me completely yet. This song came out too:

And, since we’re on less well-known music that bobbed up on the radio during this, perhaps the most exciting and diverse period in top forty music radio, there were these two songs, also rattling around MTV at the time:

“Whisper to a Scream” by Icicle Works,

And “Litarny” by Guadalcanal Diary:

As I kicked this series off, I allowed it might be possible that my situation was what welded the music from this entire series into my brain.

That’s probably true. But dang, there was a lot of good music.

Not all of it, of course . We’ll visit music tomorrow that was memorable in all the wrong ways.

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