Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
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Artist: Throwing MusesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-11-21
Music Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
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Free Music Review: The record that changed the way I thought about music
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this LP on a recommendation from a trusted source of good musical taste. It was quite an early record in my record buying career: it was 1987 and I was 16 at the time. Up until then I'd been getting into slightly more obscure music (Bauhaus being a notable example), but finding it somewhat lacking after a few listens. Then came Throwing Muses. The first track, 'Call Me', was just a jaw-dropping moment, first listen (up till then most records I had I had had to listen to a couple of times to get into them). This just connected instantly, even though it is not exactly classic easy listening. The sound was incredibly original then, and I think it still is. Nothing I've heard since is really anything like it, even the later TM LPs don't have the same impact. The LP continues into 'Green' and 'Hate My Way', the Holy Trinity of the LP forming the best opening sequence of songs of any LP I've ever heard. 'Hate My Way' is the stand out track, gut-wrenchingly beautiful, yet incredibly bleak. You can really feel the suffering without having the remotest idea how to relate to it.
Lyrically and musically this is simply great music. Clever people really thinking hard about what they're doing and making something achingly beautiful. Many people of around my age who were into a certain scene at a certain time know and cherish this record. I still listen to the same vinyl copy I bought 18 years ago regularly, and doing so is an intensely evocative experience, bringing back memories of the discovery that there was more to music than simply 'good' and 'bad' songs. There were songs that could make you sit up and reevaluate everything you'd heard before against an entirely new yardstick. Every crackle and scratch brings it all home.
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