I managed to get a ticket for New Model Army tomorrow. It was sold out but luckily there was someone selling their ticket. I wanted to share one more song of theirs, that meant a lot to me when I was young. it feels very edgelord-y now listening to the lyrics, but it still gives me a feeling of elation to hear it. Also, the album Thunder and Consolation is one of the finest albums tha the 80s gave us, and that's a hill I'm going to die on.

Shortly after I turned 13 I got a phone call from my uncle. He said, "You're old enough and need to be educated. I'm coming to visit." Two hours later his car pulled over in front of our apartment building and he came out carrying two big shopping bags full of casette tapes (all bootleg, of course). He gave them to me with the words, "You need to listen to this. All of it." There was Nick Cave (almost his full discography at the time), Einstürzende Neubauten, Tuxedomoon, Diamanda Galás, The Residents... Then my uncle's friends started calling in, bringing me cassettes of their favourites - Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, obscure garage punk. Every few weeks one of them would call and say, "Hey, I've got new music for you!" And my uncle wasn't wrong. That was the emotional education that I needed then. Read More »