{"id":86029,"date":"2023-10-10T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86029"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:50:05","slug":"soundtrack-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86029","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack, Part 6:  Notes From Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48465\">So I drove downtown<\/a>.  I visited First Avenue, had a burger, looked at Murray&#8217;s and vowed that someday, when I had a cool job and an awesome girlfriend and had <em>made it <\/em>in the Twin Cites I was going to get a butterknife steak at Murrays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I bought a tape &#8211; my first tape in MInneapolis, from my first Minneapols band.  The Replacements.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And given my situation, this song seemed apposite&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Replacements - Hold My Life (Official Promo Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5e6A_EozH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and I may have played it a few hundred times in the first week, and thousands more since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this article reminds me &#8211; I gotta get down to Murray&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>While we&#8217;re talking underground?  REM hadn&#8217;t quite graduated to annoying me completely yet.  This song came out too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"R.E.M. - Can&#039;t Get There From Here\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gD3cYh5Pp1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And, since we&#8217;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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whisper to a Scream&#8221; by Icicle Works, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImJpqutxOmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And &#8220;Litarny&#8221; by Guadalcanal Diary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guadalcanal diary Litany\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhrr9huzePQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s probably true.  But dang, there was a lot of good music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all of it, of course . We&#8217;ll visit music tomorrow that was memorable in all the wrong ways.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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