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re Oils
I got a blue colored cassette tape of Blue Sky Mining when I was in high
school.
It opened several doors and windows in my musical world, letting in
several beams of sunshine.
It had songs that confused me for a long time, then later I understood
'em. Good experience for a young lad.
My little Northern Indiana town where I spent 3.5 years of high school
was so isolated in terms of radio waves, that this music was basically
"alternative" there. So was U2. Aye de mi. It's a radiowasteland in
Rochester, Indiana, it is.
So I remember that album as a great little aural piece of my high school
career.
But I also had albums by Warrant and Slaughter, so, uh. Uh.
Did any other late eightes/early nineties highschoolers out there
experience Pearl Jam as a revelation? Like, I had been trucking along,
listening to the bands on the radio, slowly growing bored with fifth
generation hair rock like Firehouse (*didn't* buy that) and Steelheart
(*or* that). Listening to my little blue cassette. Then "Even Flow"
came on MTV, and I thought, "I think . . . I think this is something that
I was looking for. I can't explain why it's different. I think. Must
go. Must purchase and ponder."
I was also very relieved when they started phasing out the spandex.
Where the down boys go (to lurk),
Fred
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