This video was on MTV 120 Minutes all the time back when the Rangers were in the 1994 playoffs and that summer. Great memories and I had no idea who Kathleen Hanna or Bikini Kill were back then (who is this random brunette? Is she in the band?).
They had a great career. I saw Lee Ranaldo open for The Boredoms around 2004 doing some crazy noise experimentation with a few other people. Shame it ended how it did with the divorce because they still had a lot left in the tank.
Their
Goodbye 20th Century bio is very good. If you made of map of the all that band’s connections…the scenes, record labels, bands, musicians, artists, producers, culture…it’d be a big f***ing map. They were always one foot in/one foot out of everything. Avant-garde, touring with Swans (which was apparently as depressing as it sounds,) SST, Geffen. They used well-known visual artists for album covers—like most of their album covers.
Their 1986-1988 Peel Sessions* has four covers of the Fall—with the Fall.
*Really good. I don’t know how you cover the Fall, convince Mark E. Smith to let you cover the Fall, and get him to join your cover of the Fall. Then again the Fall are another band who was always one foot in/one foot out of everything.
Or how a band that enjoyed replacing guitar picks with drumsticks and power tools gets an indie rock album added to the National Recording Registry by the Library f***ing of Congress—an indie rock album with a
Gerhard Richter painting for the cover—during the same year they’re playing Fall covers at the BBC.