| Here's
another early creation that betrays my fanzine roots and my absorbsion
of Jackson Pollack and the abstract expressionists. The name comes
from a song by Matt Wilson. A native of the Minneapolis music scene,
he was in a popular band called Trip Shakespeare before appearing
in the first Polara album in 1995 (one of the best pop albums of
the '90s.) Matt has done fairly well in a solo career; the song
"Decender" comes from a local rock compilation CD by a
radio station called 93.7 The Edge.
That
local rock CD was a major influence on me, pushing me into the realm
of Minneapolis indie rock, circa 1994. There was some really great
musicians floating around, and I always felt a certain injustice
when hardly anybody could successfully capitalize on their music.
The major labels, as anyone knows, are evil, the public is fickle,
and sometimes life just throws you a curve ball.
"Decender"
is a terrific song; it should have been a hit, not just a blip on
local college radio. Fortunately, Matt has a brother named Dan Wilson,
whose band Supersonic found great success during the '90s. It seems
he's disappeared since the turn of the century, too. Dagnabbit.
God bless that American Attention Span. |
