i still have an interview with kim from a magazine somewhere from around the time it was released. she mentions that little trouble girl was written for a movie that's situated in the 50's and that they were specifically asked to deliver something in the style of the shangri-la's.

she regularly introduced the song by saying,
"this is a song about the future," or "this is a song my mother taught me."

Does anyone have the performance of No Queen Blues on Conan?

it's this movie apparently.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116442/soundtrack


i didn't know they performed no queen blues on television? if so, i'd like to see that too.

While the album does have a 70s suburban feel to it, it's not totally suburban in meaning, as there are a few references to specific streets in NYC in the lyrics.

"I was walking down Lafayette Street..." (street where Kim and T live).

If you PM me or something I can send you them.

Teen Age Riot
Starfield Road
Eric's Trip
The Diamond Sea

All live. I have a different live Diamond Sea too somewhere..

I second that request!

yeah exactly, that's how i feel as well. i can't describe better than you with my poor english. great album. in my top 3. the studio they've recorded this burned to dust.

no queen blues, such a excelence! if this was aired on tv, we have to find it somewhere!

listening to my fave record ever right now. I don't do it that often.

on topic: this record is OBVIOUSLY about the change that parenthood brought in Kim and Thurston's life. It is so obvious.
Especially Diamonf Sea, Panty lies, little trouble girl (becoming a parent yourself makes you think about what kind of child you were and what the relationship between you and yr parents was about), washing machine (Here's a quarter go put it in the washing machine).
Again it is very safe to assume that the whole washing machine is to be taken literally AND as a figure of speech also. When you become a parent, yr washing machine is yr best ally and then at the same time your whole life feels as though you're startinga brand new life altogether. It cleans some of the deepest wounds and makes you focus a whole lot more.

I could relate to the music for a good twelve years and then it hit me YET AGAIN BUT EVEN HARDER when i became a father.
I wrote a song called "BOY" that really is very akin to a mix of Diamond Sea and Snare girl which are like part1 and 2 of the same song.

Nobody gets to contradict me on this one as i'm IN THE KNOW.

i'm not even talking about the bluesy feeling og the whole LP that anyone can hear (gtrs) >>>> post-delivery blues or baby blues as they call it.


Aside from that, lots of other themes are developed on this one LP (Skip tracer or Junkie's promise>>>Kurdt / multimillion dolar lawsuit blah)

I hate to sound like a broken record, but:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to greedrex again.

I had thought that maybe Washing Machine had to do with the commodification of music into something such as mainstream as a Washing Machine. Or relate somehow to how SY entered into that.

Also WMs are very musical...

agreed
(closely followed by evol)

i´m pretty sure that becuz is influenced by because the night/Patti Smith

I realize this is almost 3 years old, but they played "Junkie's Promise" on Conan, not "No Queen".

I think Thurston was doing laundry on day, he slipped in a puddle of Tide, and cracked his head on the washing machine. Then he dreamt an entire album. When he woke up, he wrote it all down backwards, and this album is the result of that.

damn. does anybody have any videos of them doing no queen blues live, i just wanna hear that intro

I've always wondered if on Washing Machine the song they are referencing the story about the velvet underground and their ban on blues scales, since the instrumental part owes big time to both the velvets (the guitars which fade in after KG's singing in the first part of the song are very VU) and blues. I do wonder since Thurston Moore likes his rock history parables, so in my mind it makes sense that they would have a go. Probably it's just pure coincidence.