Throwing Muses

Fall Down

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Today we’re listening to “Fall Down” by Throwing Muses

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Proximity can make for strange bedfellows. Being label mates with New Order is the only way to explain why Throwing Muses found themselves on tour supporting New Order.

But I’m sure glad they were. I knew what I was getting with New Order when I bought tickets but had never heard of the opener. Sometimes a band comes along with a sound that rearranges your mind.

I found myself mesmerized as Kristen Hersh belted out her stream-of-consciousness lyrics (“Nothing ever happens here, I said, I just wait” is a favorite on an album chock full of great lines).

Who was this band? Why didn’t the drummer have any cymbals?

In the 30+ years (yikes!) since that show, this record has never drifted too far from my playlists.

More:

Arresting, unsettling and sometimes downright scary, Kristin's work was like nothing in the rock canon to that point, the result of a much-misunderstood bi-polar disorder which caused songs to 'force' themselves upon her. The young band's playing was extraordinary, joining the dots between elliptical post-punk, harmonious folk jangle and rockabilly thunder without ever settling into standard genre patterns

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“Fall Down” By Throwing Muses | Hunkpapa, 1990

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