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House Tornado (Import) (CD)

By: Throwing Muses (Artist)

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Throwing Muses Artist Snapshot:

The spacey, jangly dual-vocal/dual-guitar attack of Boston-via-Providence's Throwing Muses helped define the American college rock sound of the 1980s. Step-sisters Tanya Donnelly and Kristin Hersh would continue to craft their smart, quirky, guitar-driven pop well into the '90s. After the band broke up, Donnelly went on to play in the Breeders and later formed Belly, while Hersh performed as a soloist and under the moniker 50 Foot Wave. The band released a reunion album in 2003.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for House Tornado (Import) (CD) Album By Throwing Muses (Artist)
1   Colder  
2   Mexican Women  
3   River  
4   Juno  
5   Marriage Tree  
6   Run Letter  
7   Saving Grace  
8   Drive  
9   Downtown  
10   Giant  
11   Walking In The Dark  
12   Garoux Des Larmes  
13   Pools In Eyes  
14   Feeling  
15   Soap And Water  
16   And A She-Wolf After The  
17   You Cage  
 

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Throwing Muses: Kristin Hersh (vocals, guitar, piano); Tanya Donelly (vocals, guitar, percussion); Leslie Langston (bass, percussion, background vocals); David Nacizo (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Rich Gilbert (slide guitar).
Recorded at Fort Apache Studios, North Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Throwing Muses' sophomore album HOUSE TORNADO builds on and focuses the wild, mercurial energy of their exceptional debut. Though the band's a bit more streamlined here, the music--given Kristen Hersh's unpredictable songs and part-angel/part-devil voice--still sounds like nothing else before or since. Jagged, shimmering, paranoid, and possessed of a hallucinatory beauty, Hersh's songs have a sorcerer's effect; listening to them feels like being wrapped in gauze, scratched with glass, and dropped into a particle accelerator all at once.
Though the band's sound would become heavier and more rock-oriented on later albums, on HOUSE TORNADO they still favor a clean, shimmering guitar sound that contrasts deliciously with thundering drums and Tanya Donelly's burbling bass. "Juno" almost sounds like a pop song, but the dreamy intensity of "Colder" and "Marriage Tree," or the surreal piano ballad "Walking In The Dark" attest to the Muses' defiantly individual standing. All told, this is an indie classic from one of the best and most underappreciated rock bands of the 1980s.

Title Note

Throwing Muses: Kristin Hersh (vocals, guitar, piano); Tanya Donelly (vocals, guitar, percussion); Leslie Langston (bass, percussion, background vocals); David Nacizo (drums, percussion, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Rich Gilbert (slide guitar).

Recorded at Fort Apache Studios, North Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Throwing Muses' sophomore album HOUSE TORNADO builds on and focuses the wild, mercurial energy of their exceptional debut. Though the band's a bit more streamlined here, the music--given Kristen Hersh's unpredictable songs and part-angel/part-devil voice--still sounds like nothing else before or since. Jagged, shimmering, paranoid, and possessed of a hallucinatory beauty, Hersh's songs have a sorcerer's effect; listening to them feels like being wrapped in gauze, scratched with glass, and dropped into a particle accelerator all at once.

Though the band's sound would become heavier and more rock-oriented on later albums, on HOUSE TORNADO they still favor a clean, shimmering guitar sound that contrasts deliciously with thundering drums and Tanya Donelly's burbling bass. "Juno" almost sounds like a pop song, but the dreamy intensity of "Colder" and "Marriage Tree," or the surreal piano ballad "Walking In The Dark" attest to the Muses' defiantly individual standing. All told, this is an indie classic from one of the best and most underappreciated rock bands of the 1980s.

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Throwing Muses' sophomore album HOUSE TORNADO builds on and focuses the wild, mercurial energy of their exceptional debut. Though the band's a bit more streamlined here, the music--given Kristen Hersh's unpredictable songs and part-angel/part-devil voice--still sounds like nothing else before or since. Jagged, shimmering, paranoid, and possessed of a hallucinatory beauty, Hersh's songs have a sorcerer's effect; listening to them feels like being wrapped in gauze, scratched with glass, and dropped into a particle accelerator all at once.
Though the band's sound would become heavier and more rock-oriented on later albums, on HOUSE TORNADO they still favor a clean, shimmering guitar sound that contrasts deliciously with thundering drums and Tanya Donelly's burbling bass. "Juno" almost sounds like a pop song, but the dreamy intensity of "Colder" and "Marriage Tree," or the surreal piano ballad "Walking In The Dark" attest to the Muses' defiantly individual standing. All told, this is an indie classic from one of the best and most underappreciated rock bands of the 1980s.

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