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NOT TOO SOON vibes / color-blind / tired eyes. Tanya looks as beautiful today as she did in this video over 20 years ago.

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Kids those days: Throwing Muses in 1986ish.

This is amazing. Kristin looks so unconvinced.

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THROWING MUSES

Happy 25th birthday, Throwing Muses

The self-titled debut album from Throwing Muses, the band formed by Kristin Hersh and future Belly leader Tanya Donelly, turns 25 this year. To celebrate, 4AD will release a career-spanning double-disc Throwing Muses collection called Anthology on September 5 […]

Anthology:*

CD1:

01 Garoux Des Larmes
02 Finished
03 A Feeling
04 Marriage Tree
05 Fish
06 Hate My Way
07 No Way in Hell
08 Colder
09 Tar Kissers
10 Mr. Bones
11 Limbo
12 Summer St.
13 Furious
14 Bright Yellow Gun
15 Pretty or Not
16 Flying
17 You Cage
18 Two Step
19 Vicky’s Box
20 Mania
21 Cry Baby Cry

CD2:

01 Hillbilly
02 Same Sun
03 Amazing Grace
04 Cottonmouth
05 Cry Baby Cry
06 Manic Depression
07 Snailhead
08 City of the Dead
09 Jak
10 Ride Into the Sun
11 Handsome Woman
12 Like a Dog
13 Crayon Sun
14 Red Eyes
15 Tar Moochers
16 Serene Swing
17 Limbobo
18 If
19 Heel Toe
20 Take (Live)
21 Finished (Live)
22 Back Road (Matter of Degrees)

*Boldface for songs that have changed my life

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Throwing Muses. My BBFF (parse that).

she does it sideways

Been poring over this short film about Kristin Hersh based on Rat Girl (if you can pore over a YouTube video), trying to figure out where The Doghouse is. I thought I found it when I was running near Blackstone yesterday— I stood in front of a brown weather-beaten shingled house and stared— but came home to cross-reference and realized the windows were different, the lawn wasn’t the same. WHERE’S THE DOGHOUSE?

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I found some House Tornado cover photo outtakes when I was at home over the holidays. Have pinned them to the wall as inspiration.

One of my favorite parts of Rat Girl is when Kristin Hersh writes about the conversation she had with a stranger on Angell street that inspired the song “Hate My Way” (without really telling you that’s what she’s doing, you just have to know that the red headed punk’s comments show up as lines in the song). Later she writes more directly about the process of writing “Hate My Way.” It started as a “fake song” with fake feelings, which she then stitched to some real bits to create the version that’s on the TM debut album.

Kristin makes the point that writing songs is not a form of self-expression (why’d you want to express THAT?), but when I heard this song in high school it spoke to me in this unconflicting, maybe kind of unnuanced way. It was as close to the literal singer-songwriter mode of “this is what I think and this is how I feel about it” as Throwing Muses ever got; there wasn’t really any imagery to wade through. In eleventh grade my friend Kelly used the song as the context for a photography assignment in which I dressed up in a gown from Value Village, sat under some plants in her kitchen with her mutt dog by my side and a fake gun in my hand, sometimes pointed down my throat. “Self-expression,” of a sort. I came across these photos when I was moving and when I can figure out how to make my scanner work I’ll share ‘em, because they’re funny… in the same way the song itself is funny.

Really, truly, all of this is consuming me these days.