#277/1402 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
1986 Housekeeping
The Leaving Trains
Kill Tunes
Genre: Alternative
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
She’s Looking at You
10 Generations
Black
Falling
Terminal Island
When we were first playing we had little to no interest from labels. Every once in a while someone would say they wanted to either manage us or something. There was this duo who thought they were going to be our management. I don’t know their names. I know that he looked like a drunk from a shanty town and his companion looked like the companion of a drunk from a shanty town.
At one concert at a bar on Sunset Blvd, the name escapes me, (but Brian May sat in one week later and the engineer was the soon-to-be-fired drummer for a group called The Dollyrots) Shanty Manager and I were outside, smoking, and he was regaling me with stories that sounded true enough. In this one in particular he was telling me about Courtney Love. How she was in LA asking everyone she could who the next big thing was going to be because she wanted to hitch her wagon to that person.
This was 2002. It could’ve been true. It sounded true.
Why am I talking about this?
The lead singer of The Leaving Trains, “Falling” James Moreland, was married to Love for a couple months in 1989 before they had the marriage annulled. He is also the subject of the song
“James” by The Bangles and these days he writes about music for the LA Weekly.
“James” by The Bangles and these days he writes about music for the LA Weekly.
This album is what the bridge between The Clash and Nirvana would sound like. Toss in the ramshackleness of Pavement, for good measure.
It’s ugly/beautiful.
Like most things associated with Love, the woman and the feeling.
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