Author: Dan Seeger

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College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 70 and 69

Dan Seeger

70. Jesus and Mary Chain, Automatic If it seems like it took the brothers Reid to put out their third album as the Jesus and Mary Chain, that may simply be because they’re taking on more of the responsibilities of crafting their music themselves. They followed the experiments with drum machines on their previous release Darklands with extensive use of bass parts played from synthesizers on the Automatic. The mechanical drive of the backbeat becomes the perfect means to showcase their trademark gorgeous fog of thick guitar sound. The lands they survey are still dark, though that’s not necessarily the … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 70 and 69

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Great Moments in Literature

Dan Seeger

“‘Katz, as he endured this bombardment, was feeling sad and remote. Walter and the girl seemed to have snapped under the pressure of thinking in too much detail about the fuckedness of the world. They’d been seized by a notion and talked each other into believing in it. Had blown a bubble that had then broken free of reality and carried them away. They didn’t seem to realize that they were dwelling in a world with a population of two.” –Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, 2010 “A YOUNG NURSE WALKS FEVERISHLY THRU THE CITY’S STREETS AFTER HER SWING SHIFT DUTY…RESTLESS, LONELY…HOPING THAT … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature

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One for Friday: The Hummingbirds, “Word Gets Around”

Dan Seeger

I never paid especially close attention to the producer credits on albums during my college radio days, but there were a few names that I definitely knew. One of those names was Mitch Easter. Easter has a certain venerated status in those circles because of his involvement with the earliest efforts by college radio standard bearers R.E.M. On the little labels that adorned the albums in our station, a wide array of Music Directors had often felt compelled to note Easter’s involvement with a record, and his own band was properly adored by those DJs in the know. There was … Continue reading One for Friday: The Hummingbirds, “Word Gets Around”