Dante was onto something when he made the 9th circle of hell out of ice. Perhaps the weather is punishment for our sins, but right now I feel like we are frozen in a block of ice. To be honest, -7F is not THAT cold by Minnesota standards, so I feel like a Wussy complaining about it. And yet, complain I do.
I have found that I am not alone in the sentiment that the older I get the less I like winter. When I was a child it was my favorite season. I used to cry when it wasn’t cold enough to snow, or sulk for days when our snow turned to rain and melted away. Silly me.
So let’s keep the blues at bay with another night of 20 Prospect Radio!
Come along with me as I journey back to the mid 90’s. I am 20 something years old, and sitting home on a Saturday night while the future Mrs. 20 Prospect is working a night shift at the hospital. It’s a muggy summer night in St. Paul, and the open windows, and whirring fan are doing nothing to make it any more bearable. I turn off the lights in my little smelly one bedroom apartment, and go to the fridge for a cold beer. Beads of condensation run down the sides of the bottle, as I pick up the remote, and turn on the radio…
Breeders – Divine Hammer
Matthew Sweet – Divine Intervention
Liz Phair – F@ck and Run
Belly – Slow Dog
Juliana Hatfield – Ugly
Built to Spill – Big Dipper
Guided by Voices – I am a Scientist
Jack Logan – Female Jesus
Drivin’ n Cryin – Honeysuckle Blue
Cracker – Sweet Potato
Reverend Horton Heat – Wiggle Stick
BR5-49 – Cherokee Boogie
Dinosaur Junior – The Wagon
Sebadoh – Rebound
Fugazi – Waiting Room
P.J. Harvey – Sheela-na-gig
Screaming Trees – I nearly lost you
Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots
Are you absolutely sure we didn’t hang out in NC with matching combat boots, tie-dyed tights, and purple hair? It’s like you snatched one of my mix tapes right out of my car.
Also? Way to pick the right Sonic Youth song. And a stellar Liz Phair track.
Was that you with the purple hair? Damn girl, I hardly recognized you now. What happened?
I am so very confused. I believe somehow I have skipped an entire decade… So technically I am only 30: if you did not go through them, those years should not count against you, right?
No wonder you look so young!
Yeah, I was 20-something in the 90’s and I don’t know ANY of those songs. We must not get the 20 Prospect station here in the South. Pity.
Elly tells me they carry it in North Carolina. Maybe if you look online you can find it.
Screaming Trees — that is sooo taking me back to the 90s.
You’re not going to start wearing bangs again are you?
PJ Harvey has always had my heart.
Also props for my beloved Guided by Voices. Hot Freaks never gets old, like me:)
I do love me some Phair Fuck and run but you also have to give it up for the raw explosive power of Supernova.
“your eyelashes sparkle like guilded grass
and you lips are sweet and slippery like a cherubs bare wet ass”
Supernova ranks right up there with Divine Hammer by the Breeders in the “women singing songs about sex” category.
what elly said. couldn’t get enough of the breeders, liz phair, cracker, dinosaur jr, and sonic youth back then.
i call DANCE PARTY!
Not only do you two ladies have great taste in blogs, you have great taste in music.
We also have great taste in tropical islands. *sigh*
PS I still have my tights. I wore them with my combat boots to prom. Am I too old to get a nose ring?