Throwing Muses - Soul Soldier Video

I can put a finger on when my tastes skewered away from the fairly mainstream, chart based tastes of a typical mid-teenager to a more alternative viewpoint, it was around the end of 1987 beginning of 1988. During that time, the first real indie LP I bought was the Throwing Muses' excellent mini-LP The Fat Skier. It was like nothing I'd ever heard before and paved the way for more esoteric music in coming years. It wasn't long after that everything was fair game. Over the years I've kept a love of those earliest LPs by them, but it's fair to say I sort of fell out of love with them as well. After House Tornado it got a bit too samey and lacking the earlier fire that I liked. Recently they've got another airing thanks picking up nice digital copies of music I previously owned on cassette and the music remains as quirky and enjoyable as it ever was.

One of the stand out tracks from their earliest LPs (it appeared on two LPs - The Fat Skier and their untitled debut) was Soul Soldier. At the time it struck me in its changes in pace and mood, and it got lots of late night, falling asleep plays over the years. It was the soundtrack to a great teenage youth club holiday to the western shores of Ireland and almost made me want to take up dance, just so I could choreograph a piece to it to woo one of those teenhood sweethearts (you were young once too...) The funniest thing was, I only picked up the LP as I'd seen them briefly on TV, and thought they sounded like Sinéad O'Connor - who I was well into at the time. They don't - but I'm glad I was willing to take that leap as it led me here on this path of joyous music. Here's the video for Soul Soldier.

Posted by Dio Bach at 2:58 PM