A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
If I had to pick a song to encapsulate the overall vibe of the late 90s indie rock I was listening to (that wasn't by, say, Yo La Tengo or Pavement or the Elephant 6 crew), Creeper Lagoon's "Dear Deadly" would pretty much do the trick. The San Francisco band's 1998 album I Become Small And Go was a little flawed/inconsistent, but it's got a handful of tracks that instantly transport me to a specific point in time and immediately illustrate where my head was at back then. I covered "Empty Ships" a few hundred tracks back, but, frankly, these two tracks are kinda interchangeable. We've got the deceptively slack guitar rock that slots in alongside Pavement or Built to Spill or Modest Mouse, honed by the Dust Brothers' flashy production and some weird, scratchy percussion into this sly, miniature epic with compelling dynamics. It's oh-so-90s but still grips me.Live 2017:
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