Tiny Music...a series of entries on recent and seemingly random
purchases. Why I made them, and why, perhaps, you ought to do the
same--or at least take up the methodology!
With respect to a stack of some weird and out-there choices, An Emotional Fish's Junk Puppets
was probably the most random selection of all. Of course, it was part
of the 2 for $3 mess, so I did need to walk out with an even number of
titles. Still, the cover art was intriguing, and while the metaphor of books and covers may hold, the actual literal meaning of judging inert objects by their covers can turn out quite well.
Finding out what this disc was was one of the more peculiar
events of the trip, as it's one of those lingering, obscure titles in
the Amazon database which has had incorrect cover art assigned (Amazon
thinks this
is the cover). Similarly, Wikipedia has no articles on their respective
albums, despite three of them being released. They're a band from
Dublin, and opened for U2 on the Zoo TV tour (on the backs of Achtung Baby and Zooropa).
Their first album was even released on U2's own label, Mother Records),
after their single "Celebrate" even hit the top 5 on the US Modern Rock
charts. They apparently maintained far more popularity in their home
country than anywhere else and sort of fizzled after this, their third
and final album. It's a bass-heavy 90s rock album that, as yet, does not
jump out and grab me, but I'm still giving it some time.
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