The Discreet Charm of Morrissey!

"The smell of burning animals is making me sick. I can smell burning flesh . . . and I hope to God it's human."

I'm Back!!!

Hello everyone! I AM BACK! Yes yes, it has been a long while since I posted anything on this blog. But, HERE I AM! For those who do not know about this blog, well... it's a blog that is related to alternative music and other interesting items. I do hope you follow this blog and take a look around to some my past posts. I will soon be posting some interesting things. Soooo... Stay tuned!

ALWAYS ALTERNATIVE,
Edwin

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Tune in! Right now I turned on www.elvagonalternativo.listen2myradio.com. Listen in to some great alternative music and then... it's PAST PERFECT the 70s and 80s alternative radio show and then it's El Vagon Alternativo: ONLINE RADIO!!! 4 hours of fabulous alternative music!!! DON'T MISS OUT!!

Alternative Song You Need To Listen To... "I Will Dare" by the Replacements

This song came out in 1984 and it is taken from the album Let It Be. The Replacements never wanted to be commercial rock stars , they just wrote elaborate pop rock songs. " I Will Dare" is about the first days of adolescent romance. Paul Westerberg imagined the anxiousness of a lover waiting for her phone call. But from all of this anxiety their is hope. " If you dare, I will dare."
the band left their adoration for he New York Dolls and looked for inspiration in Big Star. What' interesting about this song is that Westerbaerg plays manolin on this track and on guitar is none other tan ex R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.
Do check out this track. It is a song that I am sure you'll be humming in your head for quite some time.

The Discreet Charm of Morrissey

“How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”  

Twenty Years Ago Today! May 31, 1993

   It was twenty years ago today on May 31, 1993, Creation Records owner Alan McGee walked in at King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut in Glasgow to attend a concert and signed a band that would go on to have the biggest selling  album of the decade. That band was Oasis! It is interesting to note that McGee usually attended concerts where his bands played and in this case it was 18 Wheeler. He would walk in 5 minutes before his bands would play. But on this particular night he attended the concert with his sister Susan and she never owned a watch so they got there two hours early. He had the opportunity to hear this band from Manchester and by the time Oasis did the Beatles cover of "I Am The Walrus", he knew he had to sign the band.
   No one ever thought how successful Oasis would become and what a huge impact they would have culturally. Oasis would go on to sell 70 million albums, have 22 top 10 singles and 7 number 1 albums before splitting in 2009.

Phrase of the Day

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.


Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)