Bash & Pop (Friday the 13th post)

So I didn't quite get this post out on the 13th but i figured, I'd still reference it in the title.

Bash & Pop were one of several post-Replacements outfits to record after the Minneapolis legends called it quits in the early 90's. replacements singer Paul Westerberg started releasing solo records, as did drummer Chris Mars. But bassist Tommy Stinson had perhaps the best release of the three in Bash & Pop, mostly because his record sounded the most like a Replacement record. Guitar driven pop rock the way the Replacements were doing on some of their last records.

At the end of the Replacements run as one of the best bands ever, they put out a CD single of a song from their last LP "All Shook Down" i cant remember the single but one of the bonus songs on it was called "Satellite". Tommy Stinson sang the song and not front man, Paul Westerberg. I heard it one time, and one time only, driving in downtown Kent on WMMS which I never listen to. I knew that my father had a friend that worked for the station and asked if he could locate the disc for me, that never came through and i never heard the song again. So after a while passed and i learned that Tommy Stinson was fronting a band of his own I was excited to get it thinking it would all sound like "Satellite".

Well it does and it doesn't really - it's better. I believe Bash & Pop's CD is still available, and probably for cheap all over the Internet, so here are two of their rare songs.

Harboring a Fugitive is a release on the obscure Soil Samples series of singles.

Situation is on the flip side of the Fast And Hard single.

For posterity i have included "Satellite" for you to compare as well.

Satellite

This should be post 13, but it's 12...

...because Field Trip have a song called "Thirteen" that, even though it's not one of their better songs, I have a special place in my heart for. The song s written from the perspective of a man looking back at himself at age 13, wondering "How I'd look to me right now..." Something I have wondered more than once...

Field Trip are a band that can start a new theme of posts here on "Bands that I like that I don't think anyone else does" While I know this is not necessarily true,it has always felt that way. My friend Matt does like them, but I honestly can't think of anyone else who even knows who they are.

Who they are is a group from Pleasanton, California that existed in the late 80s and early 90s. They played upbeat rock with a slight (VERY slight) country edge. I am not sure if this makes sense but they seem to be smiling though their records. Their playing is energetic, their subject matter is usually light and innocent and there is just something special about them that comes across as positive and fun.

Here is an example: All My Fault from their Headgear LP

So of course nobody liked them in the era of grunge and the punk explosion in the mid 90's.

But really all three of their records are thoroughly enjoyable, other people agree- here and here

Their demise seemed to be written in the cards for them by the time their last album came out (seemingly straight to the discount bins) but the band seemed indifferent to it. My favorite song by them is the very last track on their last album called "Ballad of Field Trip". Singer Jim Galbraith recounts the beginnings of the band and their elation at being signed to a tiny independent record label. The song takes you from the bands youth and you grow up with them and in a strange way resign yourself to their inevitable eternal obscurity.

It's poignant, and brilliant.

Ballad of Field Trip

Debut for Radio Lied To Me...

Daily posts for me to share anything and everything possible with you..mostly music for now...

A lost gem from the 80's... a good pop song.

Hoodoo Gurus "I Want You Back"





Hoodoo Gurus were an Australian rock band that had only minimal success here in the U.S.