C/D: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians "Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars"

I liked it at the time. Wouldn't touch it now.

I liked it then and like it now, although I don't know how I'd feel about it if I heard it fresh today. I will, however, champion the follow-up, Ghost of a Dog, which is very good.

didn't Paul Simon produce an album too?

he married edie brickell, not sure about producing anything.

I think he produced her "solo" album, Picture Perfect Morning, which was predictably dull save the Barry White cameo.

memories for me...
a soundtrack to a beautifully chubby bubbly bobbly lass from Osage, Iowa- on her turf - in the summer of 89 - no , she was great, i was the problem

her other fave was 'In My Tribe'

But her real fave was Bobby Brown

I t was the summer I 'discovered' Big Star

Back in 1769

Ah, 1769. It was indeed a good year.

I had a tape with this on one side, and Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3 on the other. I crashed my car while turning the tape over from Edie Brickell to Spacemen 3.

Apart from What I Am, I can't remember a single thing about this album.

nate, it looks like your Edie/Spacemen 3 tape might qualify for this old thread: C90 strangeness

I liked Shooting Rubberbands... In addition to the singles, Keep Coming Back was fun, and Little Miss S hit the spot. Haven't played the album since back in the day, but I'm enjoying reminiscing today.

my freshman year roommate could play "what i am" on guitar perfectly

he also had about eight zeppelin bootlegs and later became a phish head

this is him! http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/kubarych/

My first concert. Great show, too. They played a solo on a balloon.

"Beat the Time" and "She" are also pretty solid tracks off of this one.

I was just thinking about this band the other day, because that new singer/songwriter Thao who's got a record out on Kill Rock Stars this year reminds me more than a bit of them.

I crashed my car while turning the tape over from Edie Brickell to Spacemen 3.

It's almost like the contrast was too much...

weird, I was just listening to this for the first time in...god, almost 20 years i guess, so I did a search. And this thread was started only two days ago! Something in the air, perhaps.

Anyway, I am fully enjoying this album, though I suspect that this is almost entirely due to nostalgia.

I ripped it to the iPod a few weeks ago and it was nice to hear again - but mainly, like askance, for the memories.

'Good Times' on her solo album has now totally been turned into 'To Be Loved' by Joan As Policewoman.

You read it here first.

Anyone hear that Heavy Circles album she made with her step-son?

circle is a great song

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one thing though man this record is in the Tone Zone, the acoustic is super Ovation scooped mids, mild chorused late 80s action, so brittle, Michael Hedges so much to answer for

otm

i have terrifying memories of the solo her guitarist played when they performed on SNL

feel like edie and the new bohemians fit into a (nonexistent?) genre i think of as "summer camp folk rock"

nah i know what you mean, like the cool christian camp counselor lol

https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E22/363562.jpg

lol yeah
see also: indigo girls, toad the wet sprocket

yep, non-confrontational messages, and just enough rock and/or roll (however marginal) so that the kids listen.

and then, when things get nuts — early Blues Traveler

haha

I saw EB & NB in the summer of '89. My excuse is that they were on a bill with Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, and Cowboy Junkies. CJ went on first, and were shockingly effective in a 40,000-capacity outdoor shed, even if they didn't stray from the recorded arrangements at all. Brickell et al were interminable. For some reason, I had no idea they were a "jam" band, having only heard two songs on the radio. Imagine the auto-wah solo in "What I Am" drawn out for an hour, with absolutely no variation in phrasing, tone, or dynamics. It was like listening to an adult on a Peanuts cartoon for a solid hour, but it wasn't funny.

(Lou had broken his ankle a day or so prior to the show, and was replaced by Violent Femmes. EC's set was disappointingly rote.)

What is happening here somebody please send help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyyhgq2LR6k

Why does the album cover have a galaxy brain dog on it? Why is there another video that takes place in a roller rink?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjK9zRdZGAA

I saw EB & NB in the summer of '89. My excuse is that they were on a bill with Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, and Cowboy Junkies. CJ went on first, and were shockingly effective in a 40,000-capacity outdoor shed, even if they didn't stray from the recorded arrangements at all. Brickell et al were interminable. For some reason, I had no idea they were a "jam" band, having only heard two songs on the radio. Imagine the auto-wah solo in "What I Am" drawn out for an hour, with absolutely no variation in phrasing, tone, or dynamics. It was like listening to an adult on a Peanuts cartoon for a solid hour, but it wasn't funny.

(Lou had broken his ankle a day or so prior to the show, and was replaced by Violent Femmes. EC's set was disappointingly rote.)

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, April 30, 2018 12:01 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

seriously underrated post, this is cracking me up

weirdly, not having heard it in many years, What I Am had morphed in my mind into a clever, biting satire of a certain type of new-agey know-nothing. But I just went back and looked at the lyrics and I'm pretty sure it's just the sincere expression of an actual new-agey know-nothing.

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very rare photo of 12-year-old me in an edie brickell t-shirt. i didn't actually see them, though — my older brother got me the shirt.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjVV5zeWoAsPbrg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

would've preferred a Nixon shirt tbh

in an odd twist, my friend in the center there is currently an archivist at the nixon library.

I was in a record store this weekend and they were playing this album. It was excruciating. What a whiny, dreary, damp squib of a thing.

I have to think that she and Paul Simon had conversations about Spinoza and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

She tries to let the conversations dangle; Paul says "I haven't done that since 1966".