What
was popular when I was growing up on cassette that had female vocals? Umm… Hole might have had released some tapes,
and even The Cranberries, but I only ever owned them on CD. I remember owning a cassingle for the Murmurs
song “You Suck” (Still own it, by the by) and very little else that featured
female vocals.
Why was
there that awkward period in music history where the mall stars of the 1980’s
faded away and seemingly when grunge took over the women took a backseat? Why has it taken so long for them to
finally, slowly start to make their comeback?
Most importantly: Where were all of these great musicians when
I was first getting into music and collecting cassettes because, you know, CDs
hadn’t been invented yet?
The
music of Winter is between Shannon and the Clams and BFC, but it is a beast all
of its own still. It’s something that
you need to hear and really feel like you should be missing a piece of yourself
if you’re not listening to it.
But
what’s more so is that this fills a sort of void for me, as a pre-teen and
teenager, of never having tapes this good until now. At least my son will not have to suffer the
same plight.
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