Weird Missoula

Occasional dispatches (mostly about music) from a little town in the mountains that time forgot.

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I've been gone forever, I'm back now, and don't know if that's going to be consistent or not. I don't entirely know what I wanna say: I put Shahs on hiatus about a year before the pandemic started and now I don't know if I ever want to play live music again. That's not really related to being afraid of anything, I got COVID at least a couple times in the last three years. I was already retreating from the world about a year before that even happened…

I'm sure some folks that know me close already know this but friends…I am not a well person. Never really have been. I'd been wrapping myself up in that warm motherly blanket of alcohol for hours, days, and sometimes years at a time. I still frequently relapse. I often oscillate between thinking I can find a way to enjoy the nice things (wine at dinner, a well-made craft beer) and still keep it in check but I dunno, I wonder if all that worry and attention just means it needs to be something that joins Logjam Presents into the dustbin of history.

Oh cliches! I love you all, please know I do. Life has been hard in the last (checks notes) foly huck six years (!?!?!) since I last posted anything on here. I went back to school, got my first Associates of Science degree and now work IT for a reputable firm. The ball is rolling up. I've embraced the nerd I'd been hiding for decades during the pandemic, embracing my role as a Game Master for a sprawling group of weirdos playing Dungeons & Dragons, Cyberpunk Red, and some other tabletop-roleplaying-games during this time. I'm a budding DnD miniatures painter now too, go figure. I won't lie, I am not on the pulse of anything, Missoula's music scene or otherwise, and haven't been for quite some time. I'm fucking 40 now, dude. I'm the dude I used to think was weird explaining psychedelics at the house show to a bunch of children. I don't actually think you're children, btw. I let hyperbole get the better of me more often than not. That said, I've been listening to loads of Alice Coltrane, wishing well upon my fellow humans, but still the world seems to be getting constantly worse!

I'll play with y'all though. At the very least I need to keep going with the records A-Z project because that's fun for me. We. Shall. See. Lemme know A) if you even read this and B) how that makes you feel.

Kisses.

-WM

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Oh Sees, Magpies, Sunraiser @ Monk’s Bar, Friday September 22nd

Oh Sees (the newest shortening of their name) have made a career out of combining everything from stoner metal, high fantasy prog, and 60′s acid garage and whipping it up as something both hipsters and TRVE METAL WARRIORS can probably agree on. If you don’t believe me, just look around the crowd whenever they come to Missoula. They are packed with just about everybody outside the mainstream-bluegrass-jam-band-Missoula-continuum. Their shows are Big Events in a way only Red Fang or some Total Fest-related happenings ever are. You could chalk it up to the fact they’ve played this town more times than I can remember, you could say it’s because they’re incredible live; I think both are probably right. I mean, I’m doubtful I really have to explain who the Oh Sees are at all. I’m confident most of you are gonna be at this show. Maybe a better place to start would be with Orc, their latest flurry of Hobbit-inspired stoner jams. This album sounds like the product of an over-active imagination long obsessed with Tolkien, Heavy Metal (the magazine), and Black Sabbath. I mean, the Oh Sees have been trafficking in this imagery for a few albums now (songs like “Minotaur,” “No Spell,” “Tunnel Time,” “Poor Queen,” “Palace Doctor,” etc. etc.). It isn’t something new. With Orc though, I’m really hearing them just totally go for it. It’s tough to say it’s really a big step forward, Dwyer’s songwriting has been progressing at what’s seemed like a glacial pace to me, but the subject matter is so full-bore fucking nerdy and hilarious (to these ears) that I’m finding myself enjoying this album way more than I should be. I mean, I’m a sucker for stoner acid dirges (with viola!?) as much as the next guy but when one comes out of a story of filling a moat with dead bodies ala “Keys to the Castle,” I’m pretty much brought back to middle school and my obsession with the Monster Manual. I’m sure the Oh Sees aren’t gonna be forgetting any of the psych-garage burners that got ‘em here. That said, I’m more curious to see how some of this new stoner D&D music plays live. I admit I’ve skipped the last few times they’ve come through town. I’m a little jaded, I know, I work an early-as-fuck job and I’m old and have a shit ton of excuses. Not so for this one. Orc has kinda reinvigorated my interest in these guys. Maybe it’s because they’ve got more synthesizer tones floating around, I dunno, I’m a sucker for that stuff. Don’t snooze on this show. If past visits have been any indication, the Oh Sees are gonna be a great show. They’re playing with locals Magpies and Sunraiser at Monk’s Bar on Friday, September 22nd. Doors are at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and can be purchased HERE. Day of show admission is $23 and the whole thing is 18+ for you college freshmen.

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Selector Dub Narcotic (Calvin Johnson), Sandman, Fantasy Suite @ The ZACC on Monday, September 11th

Montana can seem like an outlier in the country about as much as Missoula seems like an exception to Montana. Maybe it’s because I’m not from this part of the country, but I often forget how close we are and if we are actually part of the Pacific Northwest. As a grunge-loving middle schooler in the Midwest, the mystique of the underground music coming out of Seattle and Olympia was a real thing. Missoula may be minuscule in size compared to those scenes, but I like to think we’re fellow travelers. It just wasn’t evident how true that was until I moved here. Case in point, The Sandman, Chris Sand, has been a friend of K Records’ chief Calvin Johnson for a long time. Sand brought Johnson to play the late-Zoo City Apparel space a few years ago. Though I don’t know, I can only imagine he was the mastermind behind bringing Johnson’s Selector Dub Narcotic this time as well. We’re definitely lucky to get stuff like this, independent music independent of the bar scene which, to be honest, has done a piss poor job at supporting music like this for a while now. That’s probably fodder for a wholly different post but I’m prone to digress, oh well. Selector Dub Narcotic is weird, a kind of “punk” take on electronic pop that’s more akin to bands like Quintron than any of the more 80′s-inspired electronic pop acts floating around. It’s bizarre and defiantly amateurish, two adjectives that probably describe most of Calvin Johnson’s career. Selector Dub Narcotic, Sandman, and Fantasy Suite play the Zoo Arts Community Center on Monday, September 11th. Doors are at 7pm, show prolly starts around 8pm. $6 cover.

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Strange Ranger, Fantasy Suite, Kale & Nick & The ZACC, Saturday September 2nd, 2017

Believe it or not, I haven’t forgotten about Missoula’s music scene, it’s hiccups, or this blog. I’ve just been busy and updating Weird Missoula was not at the top of my to-do list. Whatever, I’m gonna try posting a bit from time to time, probably be a bit more regular than we’re used to. The kids are back at the University and as Missoula’s Oldest Millennial, it’s my “duty” to alert them to cool shows.

Strange Ranger out of Portland, OR traffic in a kind of emo I hadn’t been totally surrounded with since the early 2000′s. I guess too, judging by the kind of bands the folks at Camp Daze regularly book, this style of emo never really went away. Who knows, my nomenclature could be completely wrong and I’m already making myself sound ancient but oh well. Strange Ranger is reminding me of stuff like American Football or earlier Get Up Kids etc. etc. Not bad, not necessarily my thing these days, but that’s just one asshole’s opinion. Locals Fantasy Suite seem to be milking the whole late 1990′s K Records catalog and thus are pretty well suited (ha!) to support this thing. Former-Boys boys Kale & Nick round out the show. Strange Ranger, Fantasy Suite, and Kale & Nick play the Zoo Arts Community Center on Saturday, September 2nd. Doors are at 7pm and I imagine the music probably starts about 8pm or so. Bring a donation for the touring band, please.

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Weird Records A-Z: Belle & Sebastian -- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (2015)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist. I still have no idea why I bought this record. I know I bought it, it’s true, but I still can’t figure out what was going on in my head that thought it would be a good idea to buy a Belle & Sebastian record in 2015. I’m not anti-Belle & Sebastian by any means; I loved this band when I was in their target audience: 19-20 year old trying to get used to young adulthood. If You’re Feeling Sinister was one of those milestone albums for me back then. That was my Belle & Sebastian. Girls in Peacetime... is, well, almost completely the same. I think the difference is me. I’m in a completely different place than when they first totally spoke to my experiences. Maybe I was looking for a shot of nostalgia with this album? I have no idea. I’m listening to it now for probably the first time since I bought it. It’s eh, it’s fine. Just not my thing. Not any more.  

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Weird Records A-Z: Bee Gees -- Odessa (1969)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist.

Odessa is, in my opinion, the greatest record the Bee Gees ever made. I’m not alone. It’s regularly regarded as their greatest achievement of the 60′s by pro critics and honestly I don’t think they’re wrong here. This album takes every aspect of what makes the Bee Gees pre-disco material work (the harmonies, English melancholy, unrepentant self-seriousness) and just ups it to an extreme. They’d honed it by 1969. It shows. Nearly every song is great. The harmonies are pretty incredible and Odessa features some of my favorite  string arrangements in pop music. The lyrics get a little silly in places and that’s probably the only negative I can think of. I’d attribute that to the Bee Gees penchant for humorlessness but really, it doesn’t drag Odessa down as much as it could. If you only buy one Bee Gees record, make this the one.

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Weird Records A-Z: Bee Gees -- Idea (1968)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist.

Only a couple artists I’m aware of have managed to do the whole two-great-albums-in-one-year feat and the list I’m coming up puts the Bee Gees in good company: Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Ariel Pink, I dunno...Beach House? Horizontal was released in February 1968 and later that September they unleashed Idea on to the world. 

I wouldn’t say Idea expands their sound too much. They general story as related by contemporary critics and the band itself is that alot of Idea was written during the Horizontal sessions so maybe we could consider it a continuation? They let Robin sing lead a bit more this time around and given his crazy vibrato and reedy timbre and I’m pretty glad they did. The Robin songs are almost universally my favorite. Barry Gibb’s leads are great, no doubt, and no band can harmonize like the Bee Gees but when one of your greatest strengths is your melancholy, handing the mic to your melancholy-ist singer is a no-brainer. Odessa, released the next year, makes even better use of Robin’s voice but it’s on Idea they got that ball rolling. 

“Kitty Can” is good, it’s almost a country song. “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” is one of the first great Robin songs and “I Started a Joke” is still a really classic Robin hit. I love Robin. Favorite Bee Gee. RIP.

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Weird Records A-Z: Bee Gees -- Horizontal (1968)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist. More of the same, really. Horizontal has better songs than 1st and hell, it’s almost more rocking if the Bee Gees’ early work could be considered rocking in the first place. I dunno. “Massachusetts” is on here and that’s a great song. I’m unsure of numbers but I’m pretty sure it was one of their biggest hits before the whole disco thing happened. Listening to Horizontal now it’s pretty easy to get mired in its melodrama. They never really operated with a good understanding of humor. The Beatles may be the more popular band partly because they never really took themselves too seriously. The Bee Gees didn’t really get that. It’s not necessarily a bad thing though, in a weird way I kind of admire how completely serious they took themselves. It may add a slightly comical edge to their melancholia for some modern ears but dude those melodies and harmonies are still pretty fantastic. 

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Weird Records A-Z: Bee Gees -- Bee Gees’ 1st (1967)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist. I can’t remember exactly when I first got into the Bee Gees’ early stuff but man, the thing that grabbed me then and still keeps me there is this pervasive feeling of melancholy and pessimism in their music. That’d be about a thousand miles away from the their disco material so if you’ve already read “Bee Gees” and mentally checked out you should just give these guys a chance already. Think Beatles with even stronger harmonies sung by three brothers who sound like they’re on the edge of suicide. Can’t hear it? I dunno. Their records kept getting better into the 1960′s. Keep going.

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1994, epic year that is was for diehard grunge fans, is finally up on these interwebs. I’ve allowed the occasional “grunge” tune on this and the other most recent installment despite my professed aversion to the thing. Oh well. During the mid-to-late 1990′s I was starting care about music myself so from here on out these shows might be a little less about digging for weirdos and more about my nostalgia. Who knows, I’m still compiling the damn things. Stay tuned, guys.

HIGH LIFE airs every Friday from 4pm to 6pm on 89.9FM KBGA in Missoula, Montana.

Here’s the playlist: Dirty Three - Indian Love Song Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand Sonic Youth - Tokyo Eye Sunny Day Real Estate - Pheurton Skeutro Arthur Russell - Hollow Tree Portishead - Wandering Star Ghost - Orange Sunshine Current 93 - Moonlight, You Will Say Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls Shellac - Dog and Pony Show Shudder to Think - X-French Tee Shirt The Jesus and Mary Chain - Snakedriver Danzig - Brand New God Drive Like Jehu - Sinews R.E.M. - Crush with Eyeliner Weezer - In The Garage Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather Violent Femmes - Color Me Once Silver Jews - New Orleans Palace Brothers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn Beck - Girl Dreams The Halo Benders - Sit on It Low - Words Smog - Drunk On the Stars Folk Implosion - Take a Look Inside Bedhead - The Unpredictable Landlord Nirvana - Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam Pavement - Range Life

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Just plugging away with the 90′s, just like we said we would. HIGH LIFE airs every Friday from 4pm to 6pm MST on 89.9FM KBGA in Missoula, Montana.

Here’s the playlist: Royal Trux - Turn of the Century Palace Brothers - Riding Smog - When You Walk The Phantom Payne - It’s a Good Thing That Word Isn’t Around Yet Pram - Radio Freak In a Storm PJ Harvey - Ecstasy Nirvana - Serve the Servants Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl The Breeders - Cannonball Sebadoh - Sister 3Ds - Hey Suess Six Finger Satellite - Deadpan Harry Pussy - Showroom Dummies Pram - Cape St Vincent Mazzy Star - Fade into You Suede - So Young Blur - Blue Jeans Genitorturers - 120 Days Tindersticks - City Sickness Stereolab - Avant Garde M.O.R. Belly - Feed the Tree Liz Phair - Shatter The Dead C - Bone Tom Waits - Crossroads Silver Jews - West S Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near Earth - Like Gold and Faceted

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Missoula Queer Fest @ The ZACC, Friday August 28th, 2015

This year has seen quite the to-do with festivals in Missoula. Camp Daze triumphed with their second time around, Total Fest ended a 14-year run last weekend with an epic (EPIC!) weekend, and now we have the first ever (and hopefully annual) Missoula Queer Fest coming up. With so few LGBTQIA-centric events in the stolid socially conservative state this is Montana, it’s pretty remarkable and exciting to see something like the Missoula Queer Fest take form. It’s just up to Missoula to make the thing prosper. 

As a cis-male ally, I won’t pretend to speak for the queer community of Missoula, but I am really happy to have seen so much more openness in the local music scene recently. We’ve been living in Missoula for seven years and I can’t remember a time where more musicians in town either identify as somewhere on the LGBTQIA spectrum or have found the courage to come out after being a part of the scene for awhile. Creating a safe, productive space where said acts can carouse and perform among other national queer acts is a really big step, a step I’m really happy to see. While Missoula is probably the most queer-friendly city in Montana, that’s all relative. Mainstream Montana is notoriously pretty horrible when it comes to acceptance of its LGBTQIA residents. Let’s show the rest of the state that kind of bullshit won’t fly here. This festival is the beachhead by which I hope more events of this nature invade the consciousness of Missoulians and Montanans alike.  For the inaugural Missoula Queer Fest, the organizers have brought together acts from such disparate genres as country and dark wave, from places up and down the West Coast. Here’s the current breakdown: Lavender Country (country) [Seattle, WA] Parae (post-punk, art-rock) [San Fran, CA] Unicorn Domination (trip-hop, electronic, pop) [Portland, OR] Eat Strike! (noise, experimental, electro-clash?) [Missoula, MT] Teens From Alberton (noise, experimental) [Missoula, MT] Wilhelmina [Missoula, MT] BVR DCVR (???) [Missoula, MT]

+ more to be announced

Missoula Queer Fest takes place over the evenings on Friday, Aug. 28th at the Zoo Arts Community Center. The fest starts at 6pm and costs $10 (I believe). You can check out Missoula Queer Fest’s website HERE for more info.

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Weird Records A-Z: The Beatles -- Meet The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour, & Revolver (1964-67)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist. 

If I thought The Beach Boys were one of those bands that really, really, really didn’t need more ink spilled about ‘em well, you know who The Beatles are.

As far as digital copies of albums go, I’ve got just about everything these dudes have done but this series is all about the vinyl I own so there you go; I own these three Beatles records. I’ve had Let it Be, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles at various points in my life but my record collecting habits are such that I go through some serious selling periods and those LPs were early causalities. Dunno why I never bought Rubber Soul but oh well, I guess I never have.

To the task at hand, I’ve grouped all The Beatles shit I own for the reason that really, we’re looking at the birth of Modern Pop Music. Revisionist assholes can hate The Beatles all they want nowadays but I take the rather courageous stance that these records are objectively good. I’m not even to going to quantify that statement. I could gush about the melodies, harmonies, songwriting, etc., but I don’t really think you need to read that. It’s been said better by other music writers. The biggest takeaway I can give you regarding The Beatles output is that its so ubiquitous that trying to review them anymore is almost impossible. Call it a cop out, whatever, it kinda is, but that’s mostly because I just wanna gush about The Bee Gees and they’re up next in my collection.

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Weird Records A-Z: The Beach Boys -- Smile (1967 to 2011)

Our Weird Records A-Z series is a trip through just about every record we own at Weird Missoula HQ. We’re talking physical pieces of vinyl. It’s part writing exercise, part way of forcing ourselves to listen to some parts of our collection that are perpetually collecting dust, all in alphabetical order by artist. 

The version of Smile that I own, the 2011 double-LP of salvaged original tracks curated by Brian Wilson, is one of my favorite records. It’s one of my favorite listening experiences. I’ll attempt to refrain from getting too fanboyish but you never know, I’ve been drinking and I should’ve gone to bed nearly an hour ago. When Brian Wilson wanted to write a “teenage symphony to God,” he was definitely deluded, completely insane, probably under the influence of something you heard about in a story once so I won’t elaborate because it was the 1960′s and the 1960′s are pretty staid by today’s standards. The references to religion, to what I guess were normal teenager-isms then, to vague Americana, they’re fucking beautiful. Don’t thank Brian. Thank Van Dyke Parks for writing all that weird or not weird and sometimes bad poetry. Together, as an album’s whole, I love it but it’s easy to get turned off by some. 

But “Surf’s Up.” That song is so absolutely perfect in its asymmetry, in its orchestration, in its sheer audacity of feeling. A lot has been written about this song, this album, the other Beach Boys’ record called Surf’s Up, that I dunno if I really need to say much other than it’s one of the finest pieces of orchestral pop songwriting that may have ever been created. 

“Good Vibrations” is on this too. Go figure.  Get yourself one of the cobbled-together versions of this record if you can. Avoid the re-recorded versions made by Brian recently, there’s something about poking at Smile so many years later that really detracts from the charming naivete of the whole enterprise. You want some version from the 1960′s. You do. 

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1992 has arrived and yes, there is a Helmet song. Stream it above.

HIGH LIFE airs every Friday from 4pm to 6pm on 89.9FM KBGA, Missoula, Montana. Here’s the playlist: Caroliner - You’re To Make Young Gems These Immortal Souls - All the Money’s Gone Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Straight To You The Afghan Whigs - Turn on the Water Throwing Muses - Firepile Guided By Voices - Metal Mothers Yo La Tengo - Some Kinda Fatigue Dead Moon - Fire In the Western World Silver Jews - Canada Pavement - Our Singer Smog - Head of Stone II Chocolate USA - Smile PJ Harvey - Dress Tom Waits - Black Wings Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane Shudder to Think - Pebbles Robert Wyatt - A Short Break Damon & Naomi - Little Red Record Co. Pavement - Here The Dead C - Sea Is Violet Royal Trux - Blood Flowers Nation of Ulysses - Last Train To Cool The Jesus Lizard - Slave Ship Helmet - Unsung Nation of Ulysses - 50,000 Watts of Goodwill Boredoms - Poy (Mockin’ Fuzz1) Stereolab - Perversion Nation of Ulysses - The Sound of Jazz To Come

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1991 is here. Stream it above. HIGH LIFE airs every Friday from 4pm to 6pm on 89.9FM KBGA, Missoula, Montana. Here’s the playlist: Les Rallizes Denudes - 夜、暗殺者の夜 The Phantom Payn - Mystery Phone Calls From Nowhere Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard - What Is Memory Beat Happening - Red Head Walking Jonathan Richman - At Night Smog - Mice Teenage Fanclub - December My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes Jim O’Rourke - Ascend Through Unspoken Shadow Talk Talk - Ascension Day This Mortal Coil - Dreams Are Like Water Primal Scream - I’m Comin’ Down David Kilgour - Shivering Daniel Johnston - A Walk in the Wind Swervedriver - Lead Me Where You Dare… Mercury Rev - Chasing a Bee Drive Like Jehu - Spikes To You Fugazi - Long Division Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1 Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid Jandek - Show the Man Your Picture Slint - Nosferatu Man

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So I’ve done a 10-part music-of-the-1980′s series and a whole host of other theme shows. I figured, hey, it’s time I just do the 1990′s. It’s the decade that holds a lot more nostalgia for me than any other because, really, it’s the one in which I started listening to music the way I do now.  This show is part one of this new series. Everything played here was released in the year 1990. I’ll be continuing week after week, one year at a time, until we’ve reached the end of the 20th century. I’m avoiding a lot of what’s been branded “90′s music” i.e. grunge, THE HITS, and the like, so be forewarned. I’m pretty happy with the results thus far. You can stream the thing above.

HIGH LIFE airs every Friday from 4pm to 6pm on 89.9FM KBGA in the Missoula, Montana area. 

Here’s the playlist: Royal Trux - (Edge of The) Ape Oven Dead Moon - Walking on My Grave Sun City Girls - The Shining Path Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son Dead Can Dance - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk Mazzy Star - Before I Sleep Brian Eno & John Cale - Cordoba Wire - Do I Dugga? Galaxie 500 - Way Up High The Clean - Dunes Crime & The City Solution - The Last Dictator Part I Peter Scherer & Arto Lindsay - Austere and Hungry Julee Cruise - Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart Guided By Voices - When She Turns 50 Yo La Tengo - Barnaby, Hardly Working Pixies - Ana Morrissey - Hairdresser on Fire The Breeders - Oh! Fugazi - Merchandise The La’s - Timeless Melody Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon Yo La Tengo - Andalucia Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Foi Na Cruz