SOUNDTRACK: GRIEVOUS ANGELS-“Saturday Night in a Laundromat” (Moose: The Compilation, 1991).
Back in the 1990s, it was common to buy a compilation or soundtrack or even a band’s album based on one song. Only to then find that you didn’t really like anything else on it.
Maybe that single sounded like nothing else on the album. Maybe the movie was almost entirely one genre, but they had that one song that you liked over the credits. Or maybe the compilation was for something you didn’t know, but a song you really wanted was on it, too.
With streaming music that need not happen anymore. Except in this case.
I bought this compilation, used, recently exclusively for one song, Rheostatics’ “Woodstuck.” It’s a goofy song and this is the only place you can get the studio version. The actual compilation was not well documented, so I didn’t know what the other bands on it might sound like. It turns out to be a compilation for Ontario based Moose Records which specialized in Rock, Folk, World & Country. They put out another compilation in 1992 and that’s all I can find out about them.
Grevious Angles sound an awful lot like Cowboy Junkies–slow, downbeat folk/country that tells a story. The story of being in a laundromat on a Saturday night is kind of interesting.
The band is still playing (after taking a brief hiatus in 2004 for singer songwriter Charlie Angus to enter politics for four years.
In this song, Michelle Rumball has a deep, sultry voice. She left the band after this album, so I’m not sure what they sound like now.
[READ: July 1, 2019] “Super Dads”
The July/August issue of The Walrus is the Summer Reading issue. This year’s issue had two short stories, a memoir, three poems and a fifteen year reflection about a novel as special features.
Another except from this novel was published in The 2019 Short Story Advent Calendar.
In this excerpt, three men, Frank, Nick and Prin are heading to Dizzy’s World, a theme park that has seen much, much better days.
Nick and Frank are from Terre Haute and used to go to Dizzy’s World all the time as kids. They both have fond memories. Prin is not from the area and has never heard of the place.
All three had been hired by an evangelical millionaire to help build a theme park inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Prin was a University professor. He understood footnotes and he knew that most people hated even the idea of them. He was hired to talk footnotes to footnote haters. (more…)
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