A Brief History of Music That I Have Liked or Obsessed About in Some Sort of Fashion
Smog, a massive amount of dust and grime in the air and atmosphere. Such an inappropriate thing to name your band if you make such a sonically blissful album like Red Apple Falls.
That’s where I started my newfound addiction with the band Smog and their lead singer/creator/musical mind, Bill Callahan. Its weird how this seems to happen to me often. Music transfixes me in different ways and its happened again.
First sadly to say in middle school, it happened, with Dave Matthews Band. But that will be ignored due to my youthful stupidity. And therefore is thrown out.
From there it became an obsession with Phish. I was a neo-hippie, so what. With that being said, they did do one significant thing. They introduced me to the Velvet Underground’s Loaded. Loaded brought me to White Light/White Heat, and with that an obsession with 60′s lo-fi music. At the time White Light/White Heat with sonic with pristine dirtiness and great amplitude. And without that album you wouldn’t see Sonic Youth doing what they do best. Anyways, the Velvet Underground led me to Television->Wire->And So on->And So On…
One after another changed my life, for the better of course. But it would always go in waves. In college, I became obsessed with Wilco. Thought Jeff Tweedy was a God. Some sort of legend, sent to wander the world in a jean jacket with headache inducing vomiting. It was an unhealthy obsession, but I had one. I listened to Being There (both discs), Summerteeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot over and over. Then it stopped. Just like that. No more Wilco. Occasionally I’ll pop in Being There (for some reason it’s the only one I can go back on and enjoy).
Anyways, enough about that. Back to business at hand. Smog has become my new thing. I have no idea why or how long it is going to last. I do know I’m only two albums into a discography that is well over twenty years long. So enjoy some Smog. It’s worth it, for now.
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