It's not clear to me how many times you need to hear this, but it appears to be an increasingly large number.
UPDATEI've been trying to Google the lyric to Great Plains' 1986 classic "Letter to a Fanzine", featuring the immortal couplet "Isn't my haircut really intense?/Isn't Nick Cave a genius in a sense?", but it's not out there. I did, however, learn that Dr. Demento latched onto the song. I am pleased, but not surprised.
What a great, great song that was. I could dig out the record, but I'd have to find my turntable too.
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'I like everything that comes out on 4AD
I like everything that comes out on Homestead' --I like everything that comes in the mail for FREE,
How 'bout THAT?"
The musical question which made the song famous, "Why do punk rock guys go out with New Wave girls?", is too trivial to bother answering.
Homestead. Remember Naked Raygun?
UPDATE IIGreat Plains were on Homestead themselves, of course.
But more to the point, one or two of them ended up, in the late 1990s, playing with two guys who'd been in
The Reactions (of
Cracked Marbles obscurity) around the same time. This outfit called itself Cobra Verde, and they were execrable beyond words. They've since gotten a great deal worse. But the point is, they're the backup band on
Mag Earwhig. Which is a masterpiece.
UPDATE IIIMaybe that poor clown in Cobra Verda wasn't from Great Plains at all. Maybe he was from Big Dipper. That'd sort of spoil the point there, wouldn't it?
Oh, fuck it...