The Big Green House

Thursday, October 23, 2003

 

In the winter everything is different

Somebody has finally gotten it together to re-release the Dumptruck catalog. I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. Positively Dumptruck is among my top ten favorite albums of the Eighties. It is a beautiful and moody album, which meshed pretty well with my occasionally beautiful, always moody personality back then. I found it very cathartic, in the way some folks found The Cure. (Never much cared for them, myself. Robert Smith�s voice annoys the holy living fuck out of me.)

I have a tape, somewhere, of the first two Dumptruck albums. The side with Positively on it has gotten the most play, by far. It�s been awhile since I�ve listened to it; I think the last time was during a trip Science Girl and I took over to the Olympic Peninsula a couple years ago. (That was the trip during which we decided to get married, so now I have a much happier context for those songs. Let that be a lesson, kids: live long enough and things will eventually turn around.) So I�m looking forward to hearing my old friend again and seeing how it holds up, now that I�m so much less miserable than I was back in the day.

Now if only someone would re-release Big Dipper�s Heavens. Anybody out there listening?

bmarkey 10/23/2003 10:23:00 PM