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- From: dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu (David Manning)
- Subject: Re: Sonic Youth - Providence
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <By71Dt.2LD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov24.025227.11707@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:56:54 GMT
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- pecot@wam.umd.edu (Jonathan Michael Pecot) writes:
-
- >In article <By71Dt.2LD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gershbei@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Michael Gershbein) writes:
- >>Can anyone tell me what's going on in this song? I feel like I'm missing
- >>out on something.
- >>
- >>Mike Gershbein
-
- >I read in Rolling Stone a couple of years ago about it. The sound is an
- >overheating amp that steve shelley said was making wierd noises because they
- >had put something on it. So, of course, they recorded it. The voice is none
- >other than mike watt (of minutemen, firehose fame.) It is an answering
- >machine message to thurston moore where watt is scolding him for losing
- >guitar cables. The part at the end where he says '... your memory just
- >goes out the window...' is apparently a reference to memory loss from
- >smoking pot.
-
- >Before I read this, I too had no idea what the hell the song was about.
- >I thought is was a recording of a fire with a fireman talking over it
- >(go figure.)
-
- Not to burst a bubble, but I don't think it matters -- it's a really cool
- song. I found this song on a 7" with a mono and stereo versions, and can't
- really tell the difference. :-)
-
- Dave
-
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