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Alternative to What?December 19, 2007... Further to my previous post, here's a band that doesn't sound like the university-educated children of upper-middle-class parents. No Mind - Well AdjustedNo Mind - Checking the ObituariesNo Mind - Cause InsanityNo Mind conjures up for me the image of a fifty-something father in a ribbed wifebeater and trucker hat, with a cigarette smoldering in one hand and a tabloid and coffee mug splayed out on the arborite table in front of him. A call-in show blares from the clock radio on the kitchen counter. His kid's band starts playing in the basement, he shakes his head in disbelief and turns the radio up. No Mind is the sound of unwashed hair, three-day stubble and flannel shirts. It is the sound of cigarette burns on a filthy carpet in an apartment with iron radiators and cracked windows painted shut, where there isn't a single microbrew bottle among the empties stacked in cases beside the fridge. It is the sound of another era, before the Decemberists consensus and universal hipness. No Mind - Dirt DesireToday's post is dedicated to M.I.P. Thanks for going above and beyond. Permadink | | |
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