SOUNDTRACK: POSITIVELY STOMPIN’-“Jump on My Wheels” (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.
Positively Stompin’ certainly sounds like a certain kind of music. So it’s a little surprising how quietly this song starts out with just acoustic guitar. The song picks up with some slower stomping about midway through although a ripping guitar solo really activates the buzz in the song.
It’s a short lived buzz though as the song more or less settles into a kind of Southern Rock, which is a bit ironic coming from a band from Toronto. I cant find much out about this band, although they did have an album out called Junk Drawer.
[READ: August 1, 2019] “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”
This is an excerpt from Crain’s novel Overthrow. which is about the Occupy movement and protests.
Lief and Matthew were together when Lief’s phone started buzzing. Lief read the text–its happening. police were everywhere.
They decided to go check it out–many of their friends would be going as well.
They brought earplugs–the police have some kind of sound weapon that they bought after 9/11.
The city was sleepy and quiet. So quiet and still, that it felt abandoned. (more…)
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