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Fixed It.

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  Nevermind. I fixed it before you even noticed. 1997 - Tomorrow is Today So a while back I had to fly to Central fucking Florida to help with cleaning up my late mother's estate.  If I never have to go back to fucking Florida ever again I will not miss it. Not my kind of place.  Plus I went to like half a dozen record stores throughout like a 30 mile radius (because nothing is ever close) and only found one that was worth a shit, Tonevendor in St. Augustine. All of which is a roundabout way to get to this. I'm browsing through the stacks as one does and perusing the selections up on the wall where the good stuff and big ticket items are usually displayed and to my surprise I see that  this obscure Minneapolis shoegaze album by February reissued as a two lp set on vinyl. (if you are so inclined to vinyl Saint Marie Records put it out in 2016. It was initially released solely on compact disc)  This is a great fucking album. It expands on the previous effort wi...

Looking at my Shoelaces

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  Blah Blah Blah. Hungry and there are pork chops to be had in the other room     1996 - Even the Night Can't Tell You From a Star February . Ethereal Dreampop/ Shoegaze There was apparently in an alternate music scene in the Twin Cities from the one I frequented throughout the middle '90s that was all about the shoegaze. I was miles away from this, but appreciate it now in hindsight. I don't think I ever came across February in the wild. I would have hated it then anyway, pretentious twat I was at the time. (Still a twat, just less pretentious about it) But it's some very sweet female fronted stuff that would probably go well with some X. (Check the pockets of that jacket you haven't worn in like 25 years.)  "That Girl" is the hit, but I'm like that.  And just to date it, the final and title track is one of those things where the song itself happens and then there's like a four minute gap and then the "hidden track" happens. In this case...