Music can send you down a trip on memory lane, it’ll make you remember a loved one or a fun time in your life or maybe even that one night with that special someone… you know what i’m talking about. We at 1833 are no different and want to celebrate the past with our weekly segment THROWBACK THURSDAY’S; check below to see what era our contributors are stuck in this week and come back every thursday to find out what songs you forgot you missed.
Zach:
“If you stand over my body, I’ll probably kill you
Not really, Weezy da realest
I wear a lot of bathin ape cause I be with gorillas”
Donshining:
The first band I was ever in as a kid was with my best friends from elementary school. We were a bunch of Christian kids who grew up in one of arguably the most privileged environments in the country but still found a bunch of shit to be sad about. At the time we were in heavy discussion choosing between two names for the band, 99 Lives to Ruin or The Art of Silence and since we had signed up for the battle of the bands at Scullen Middle School’s Winter Dance we had to choose one. We ended up choosing 99 Lives to Ruin, presumably because it sounded way harder to our 13 year old minds and since this was our first show ever we had to make a solid impression for the dozens of middle school girls that we were gonna be playing for. At that time in the suburbs, Naperville was considered to have the hottest girls around so this was our time to get as many of those hugs as possible after our show. We played 3 songs:
“Face Down” by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
An original 99 Lives to Ruin called “One Step Closer”
and this song “Cute Without the E” by our favorite band at the time Taking Back Sunday.
In the end, we ended up winning the battle of the bands because we were the only band in the competition and our lead singer got one girl’s number. The rest of us realized we should probably be lead singers.
Mama Sims:
“I’m full, full, full
Right up to my neck
The only time you’re nice to me
Is when I cash my check”
It’s been a long week, and the blues by two of Chicago’s greatest musical legends, guitarist Buddy Guy and harmonica vituoso Junior Wells sounds just right. “Cut You Loose” is from their Alone and Acoustic album released in 1981, the duo first recorded together in 1965. On a personal note, I met my husband at his debut performance at Buddy Guy’s Legends, and Junior Wells gave my son Noah an autographed harmonica for his first birthday, so their music is extra special to me. Junior Wells who passed in 1998, had a way with words – I remember fondly when he told a bartender, “I can resist anything but temptation,” while ordering another double shot of Tanqueray. “Cut You Loose” is a masterpiece, hope you enjoy it.
Alexy:
“Calls became frequent/ we’d hang out on the weekend
Started feeling like shes the one Ive been seeking”
Earlier today I was going through old pictures since Facebooks been showing those “you’ve been Faccebook friends with so & so for a year now” pics on my timeline and I came across a few pictures with the girl I first really fell for, by coincidence she had been looking at the very same pictures for that same reason this morning and messaged me with a snapshot of them. I never understood whether she liked me as much as I liked her because it was more of a really good friends/should we or shouldn’t we date type deal but in the end I always have the moments we spent together. It definitely means something to at least have them; even if I don’t figure out what that something is until i’m a lot older.
Juttin:
Today, I hate rap music. I hate big room house. I hate that my favorite artist of all time is remaking the wardrobe for The Matrix and selling it for more than I make in a month. But, in my time of sadness, I remember this Henry Mancini number I first heard in The Big Lebowski and it seemed to mellow me out. God bless a great string arrangement.
Martin:
Chaz French may indeed be our generations musical form of Nikola Tesla. I can’t help but listen to some of his older releases, understand how plugged he is, and notice his influence in a lot of artist’s music who have garnered more attention. Not only is “YNN” a personal favorite from Chaz, but it also might have been the hip-hop birth of the greatest adjective of all time: lit. This is about a year old, but take notice of the soothsayers use of “it’s lit! it’s lit!”. As I said with his release of “What Ya Say” yesterday, I have questioned my entire life’s purpose trying to figure out why Chaz isn’t the head of the rising crop of talent from the DMV area.
Brandon:
Burial’s Untrue, and especially the title track from the album, completely reconfigured how I approach music, both as a listener and an active participant. Really, if anything, this song in particular taught me that it is possible to meditate, or attempt to, with or towards music. The vocal sample: “And it’s all because you lied,” repeats itself in a stoic sort of chant, and the line “We could be friends/ Away from my heart” really hits home for anyone going through a breakup or just leaving a relationship. Fall is here, and Burial’s music, year after year, fits in perfectly with the cooler weather.
