Static on the Wadio - Episode 11

When I graduated high school, my life became my own. I was suddenly responsible for my actions, for my purpose, for how I viewed the world. For a few years I had an amazing growing awareness of the power of music but nothing had prepared me for this new beginning. Then, one day I was lying on my bed in my dorm room and I read about an album that just came out by the Pixies. I had no what they sounded like but the way it was described in this article clutched at me. I immediately went out and got the album, Dollittle, and laid it down for my ears. The song Debaser kicked it off and it was so strange. I didn't know what to make of it. It had so much energy, so alive in my heart but it was kind of a mess, discordant and melodic at the same time. Little did I know but that would grow into the sound of a generation, for me and for so many others as we navigated our twenties in the apathetic nineties. Many of those songs can be found in this mix, bands that we're instrumental in keeping me grounded during a difficult and tumultuous time in my life.

This is the second installment of my efforts to capture an era.

SOTW - EP11
01. Pixies - Debaser
02. REM - Orange Crush
03. Hoodoo Gurus - A Place in the Sun
04. Cracker - Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
05. The Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned
06. Concrete Blonde - God Is A Bullet
07. Throwing Muses - Hook In Her Head
08. Curve - The Colour Hurts
09. The Heart Throbs - Dreamtime
10. Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
11. The Flaming Lips - Turn It On
12. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
13. The Breeders - Cannonball
14. Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
15. The Darling Buds - It Makes No Difference
16. Pavement - In the Mouth of the Desert
17. Turkey Mallet - Broken Boy
18. Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
19. Portishead - Sour Times
20. Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway
21. Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
22. The Connells - Stone Cold Yesterday
23. Belly - Feed the Tree
24. The Replacements - I'll Be You
25. The Pale Saints - Thread of Light
26. Camper Van Beethoven - Sweethearts
27. The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
28. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
29. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored.