Pop Kulcher: The Law School Years (88-91) [2 cd mix] by Pop Kulcher

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Submit Date: 8/21/2006
Format: Cassette
Category: Pop

Pop Kulcher: The Law School Years (88-91) [2 cd mix]

Side A
Artist	Song
The Replacements	I'll Be You

The Jesus & Mary Chain	Between Planets

Blake Babies	Look Away

House Of Love	Christine

Eleventh Dream Day	Teenage Pin Queen

Television Personalities	Salvador Dali's Garden Party

Cocteau Twins	Carolyn's Fingers

Posies	My Big Mouth

Charlatans UK	The Only One I Know

The Connells	Sal

My Bloody Valentine	Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)

Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd.

XTC	Mayor Of Simpleton

The Breeders	Opened

Wonder Stuff	Unbearable

Robyn Hithcock	Veins Of The Queen

Joe Strummer	Jewellers & Bums

The High	Box Set Go

Dinosaur Jr.	The Wagon

Sugarcubes	Coldsweat

Big Audio Dynamite	Contact

The La's	I Can't Sleep

Wire	Eardrum Buzz

Dead Milkmen	Punk Rock Girl

Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Pere Ubu	Waiting For Mary

The Primitives	Way Behind Me

The Cure	Never Enough

Yo La Tengo	Alyda

R.E.M.	Pop Song 89

Ultra Vivid Scene (w/ Kim Deal)	Special One

Pixies	Wave Of Mutilation

Happy Mondays	Step On

The Feelies	Sooner Or Later

Brian Eno & John Cale	Lay My Love

Sonic Youth	Tunic (Song For Karen)

Stone Roses	Made Of Stone

Too Much Joy	My Past Lives

Grant Hart	Twenty-Five Forty-One

Darling Buds	Burst

Michael Penn	No Myth

World Party	Way Down Now

The Reivers	Other Side

New Order	All The Way

Camper Van Beethoven	She Divines Water

The Chills	The Oncoming Day

Comment:

The exciting sequel to Pop Kulcher: The College Years, here's a review of the stuff I was listening to during the next three years. Gotta say, much of this has had much less of a lasting impact on me (judging in part from the fact that a lot of this I pulled from the lesser-played discs boxed up in my closet, rather than the more routinely-played discs on my shelves). Maybe that's just because law school doesn't bring up the same warm tingly feelings as college. More likely this was just sort of a down period for alt. rock, at least for me. A lot of the bands that got me through college had much of their best work behind them (i.e. R.E.M., Replacements, Sonic Youth, Feelies), and the bands that got me through the 90s weren't fully up & running yet (i.e. Pavement, Superchunk, Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo). Plus a lot of the key genres of the time (i.e. shoegaze, girl-pop) didn't necessarily age well. Still, plenty of fine tunes, and it was nice dusting off a few of these.

Next time around, I think I'll step back a bit further and pay a visit to the high school years.

Feedback:

Rob Conroy
Date: 8/21/2006

I know what you mean about music from law school, but there are still plenty o' cool bands/choices here.

Mark Petruccelli
Date: 8/21/2006

Alot of great stuff again. As with your High School mix, I didn't discover alot of these til much later. The Lou Reed and Dead Milkmen tracks are particular favorites.

p the swede
Date: 8/21/2006

yes this is mostly great stuff

The Misfit
Date: 8/21/2006

Nice.

kwan_dk
Date: 8/21/2006

Great stuff on here. Mayor of Simpleton - now that's a great track!

SMoss
Date: 8/21/2006

Great piece to keep the memories intact! I was in Ann Arbor then, and saw great shows by the Mats (Michigan Theater), Robin Hitchcock (sober) in a small detroit venue, and John Cale (not sober at all) in a dark, small club in Detroit. Good clubbing years, those.I always wondered about those Game Theory discs I saw in School Kids records. Never heard one.

anthony lombardi
Date: 8/21/2006

this series is turning out to be really great - loved the last one, & this one is excellent as well. tons of classics here - pixies, the JAMC, REM, the 'mats, lou reed, stone roses, the cure. you had & have fine taste & this is a fanstastic addition to the previoux mix

groove366
Date: 8/21/2006

Love most of this stuff too.

Siobhan
Date: 8/22/2006

This is such a good series - even without the sentiments behind them, the mixes would still be good, but I think the reminiscences (is that a word? possibly not) give it that added value. Love the Wire/Dead Milkmen bit, as well as the Feelies and Pixies. I had forgotten that the Charlatans pick was released back then too - nice inclusion.

Moe
Date: 8/22/2006

Nice. I was unceremoniously kicked out of law school, but we were listening to the same CDs at the time.Nice to see obscurities like the High and the Reivers get there due. I was nuts about the Blake Babies, the Chills and the C. Twins during this period in my life as well.

Moe
Date: 8/22/2006

THEIR due! I got kicked out of remedial English too.

Dead Man
Date: 8/23/2006

More great stuff. Here's a marginally related detail--I worked for West Publishing (the company that produced the law books pictured on the cover), but the years don't quite overlap with this mix, 1984-1987.

gobi
Date: 9/17/2006

great stuff . . . . wilderness years for me . . . back to Led Zep and Sabbath . . . .