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« on: March 07, 2018, 02:30:32 PM »
I vividly recall moving from NH at age 10 to Chicago. When I went back to NH visit my friend Alex a year later, he just started collecting CDs, stolen from his older brother. There were 3 that we played on repeat, Crass - Best Before '84, DK - Frankenchrist, and Pavement - Crooked Rain x2. As soon as I got back to Chicago the first thing I did was go around to shops to find those discs. The hardest one to find was Crass. I remember thumbing through the yellow pages, an early 90s tradition, and calling every record store in my area until finally I found one that had Crass. A girl answered the phone, put me on hold, confirmed they had it, then said the owner of the shop wanted to speak to me. Guy gets on the phone, hears that I'm like 11yo and says "relax I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but I love Crass". It was a rare moment, where a budding young music obsessive crossed paths with an old timer and had an actual human connection, on a land line! I played Best Before for some of my buddies who glommed onto it, to the point where we'd randomly burst into chants of "nagasaki nightmare" and asked each other if they owed us a living? (course they fucking did)
As for DK, I remember having a speech class in jr high where an assignment was to recite lyrics to any song and I chose Soup is Good Food. Pavement got the ball rolling for all my midwestern indie indulgences. Of those 3 albums Crooked Rain x2 is what I'd go back to first, so much for being punk!
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