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...Record Hospital broadcasts not the major label music played on commercial radio, but rather independently released rock and roll. Commercial radio stations, such as WBCN or WFNX, almost always play music that is produced and distributed by one of six major record companies. But for every record released by one of these major companies, 100 independently released records are produced and distributed by small companies. Because commercial radio stations need to maintain a large listenership in order to attract sponsors, they hardly ever play music by artists that are not already well-known and could cause listeners to tune...
...wasn't always this way-when I first arrived at Harvard, I was in a state of alternative withdrawal. Having listened to Los Angeles' excellent KROQ for several years. I was dismayed to find that while WHRB would come in over my phone, WFNX just wouldn't come in on my radio. I needed my Peter Gabriel, my Pearl Jam, my R.E.M.! Flipping aimlessly through station after station, from WBUR's BBC coverage to Kiss 108's irritating dance mixes, I eventually found what I was looking for--on WBOS, the station that the Unofficial Guide characterizes as "Fleetwood...
...collector Mick Murphy sings about wanting to escape his friends for a while ("Mr. Spaceman"); about not understanding why his girlfriend left him ("Gas," "Tremendous many"); about crushes ("Water for a Man on Fire") and so on. Sometimes (as in Sorry's Not Enough") the results are equally commonplace, WFNX fodder whose riffs are" memorable" only is some minimal, involuntary sense...
...records in part from the soulful, chiming sound perfected by James Kirk, the Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner" and "William Shatner." (And no, those Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed a shy whiteboy coyness with the tricks and glides he'd learned from American Motown records, were hardly the most "masculine" singing to be heard north of Hadrian's Wall...
...rock," more straightforward than the last two Verlaines outings. On the one hand, as the inspiring title track and the pounding "Incarceration" show, incitement to rock has only helped Downes' songwriting. On the other hand, a generic Hollywood producer gave Way Out Where a digital sheen more suited to WFNX (which won't care) than to the fans who will actually buy the record. If you've never heard the Verlaines, don't start here--start with Juvenilia (Homestead/Flying Nun), their best and earliest work, recently reissued on CD with several added tracks. The Verlaines faithful aren't quite...