What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I revisited Throwing Copper a little while ago this morning and I know why I love it so much ! In 1994 I thought music was in a bit of a funk so I started watching Music Television more to try to pick up something new and fresh ! White Discussion song came on by Live and I was immediately hooked !

The album was a compositon of fresh new sounding music...melodic tracks with a different sounding vocalist !!!! This album has to rate up there with one of my favorites !



The album cover is a replica of a painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson - Sisters of Mercy....did it influence Leonard Cohen's song title and the band Sisters of Mercy ?

Album was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and peaked at number one in Canada, Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand ! Surprisingly it only reached #37 in the UK(maybe it's hard to crack the UK market if you're not a Brit ???).

US Billboard had it at number 60 on their 1990-1999 best album list.

All Music rates it at 4.5/5.

just a couple of responses to comments you have made SteveO...

the years between 1987-1994 were pretty lean for me...didnt like anything new that i heard(probably why i missed the whole 'birth of grunge' thing), i only brought cds by artists i knew and trusted over that period.

i dont think the UK is a hard market to crack...always thought that the American market was the hardest for foriegners to make it in.
i guess the reason that the Throwing Copper thing didnt do too well in the UK at the time was probably because in 1994 the whole Britpop thing was happeining in the UK, bands like Blur,OCS,Radiohead,Stone roses,Suede,Weller and the emergance of a little band from Manchester(oasis) were hitting their straps and dominating the charts/airwaves...so little else had any chance of making it

...well, thats my two cents worth,anyway!