Episode 62 - His Name Is Alive - pt1 Early Period

Where it began, and my last mix focusing on this group for a while.  They had a sound destined for 4AD records, yet they were utterly unique in their approach.  The dreamy, hazy, claustrophobic alternative pop was like nothing else I'd heard at the time.  I recall fondly staying up late and watching public access TV when they showed videos that didn't really fit on MTV; such was the brother's Quay directed Can't Go Wrong Without You.  I was forever hooked based on that track alone.  Months later NPR played "Baby Fish Mouth" as an outro to a news segment and I just new this band was something special.  "We Hold The Land in Great Esteem" is easily in my ten favorite songs of all times.  I used several samples from their album "Home is in Your Head," namely "Save the Birds" as parts of my high school music compositions for the talent show and performances.  "The Dirt Eaters" with its uncleared samples from Ironweed is just a slice of something wonderful.  Overall, it is the collage work best displayed on "King of Sweet" that has kept my attention and adoration for so many years.  I cannot stress enough how wonderful this group is, in every incarnation they have appeared under.

00:00 His Name Is Alive - Save the Birds

00:20 His Name Is Alive - If We

02:57 His Name Is Alive - Fossil

04:26 His Name Is Alive - Man on the Silver Mountain (Rainbow)

08:03 His Name Is Alive - We Hold the Land in Great Esteem

11:55 His Name Is Alive - Why People Disappear

16:04 His Name Is Alive - Are We Still Married

18:51 His Name Is Alive - Blue Moon (Big Star)

21:03 His Name Is Alive - Can't Go Wrong Without You

24:15 His Name Is Alive - Driftin Blues (Driftin)

27:48 His Name Is Alive - Lemon Ocean

30:32 His Name Is Alive - Lip 

33:23 His Name Is Alive - Love's A Fish Eye

36:49 His Name Is Alive - Moon Don't Go

39:32 His Name Is Alive - The Dirt Eaters

43:51 His Name Is Alive - Soul Resides in the Horse Barn (h____barn)

47:50 His Name Is Alive - Take A Look Around You (around)

50:50 His Name Is Alive - The Homesick Waltz

54:41 His Name Is Alive - Underwater

57:55 His Name Is Alive - Where Knock is Open Wide

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