![]() ![]() Anyway, I still think this is a fine album Josh Silverman was a sterling songwriter and guitar player, and if they weren't exactly on the Husker Du level as a scrappy power trio, it's got some beautiful songs. I even dropped out of college for a year to tour with them. Nobody on earth liked New Jersey's Shirk Circus but me (and I have several dozen shows' worth of spartan attendance to back that up), but their Bar/None debut, Words to Say owned my life for about three years. Harmer's lyrics were impressionistic and alien-obsessed and the music, while unremarkably guitar-poppy, had some great hooks. At the time, it was the pure pop album I wanted the Breeders to make after Last Splash. ![]() It had echoes of the Smiths and Robyn Hitchcock and the Wonderstuff and other more "important" bands, but I still get "Mona Lisa" and "Good Morning Heartache" stuck in my head from time to time.īefore Sarah Harmer became Sarah Harmer, she was in Weeping Tile (terrible name), whose second album Cold Snap got dropped down a sidewalk grate by Atlantic's weird little "alternative" outpost, TAG Recordings. I loved the Jack Rubies' See The Money In My Smile when it came out, and I'd still stand by a lot of that album (although why they chose "Bullfighters' Disco" as the single, I'll never know). ![]()
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