― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I read somewhere back in 1995 or so that Belly actually broke up because King didn’t sell well enough, which makes me sorta sad. Is this true? Did anybody else hear that?
― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
King never really did it for me, it just overproduced (I know, stupid word) and weighty. Her songs seemed more magical when she was just writing them with an acoustic guitar and then sticking a band on, rather than when they were writing AS A ROCK BAND.
I saw them twice, when Leslie from TM was still in the band, yeah, they were really kickass.
Supposedly the Radiohead/Belly tour was one giant mess of horndog indie musician crushes and not-so-twee flirtation.
― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I imagine Belly were selling a little better than Throwing Muses at that point (circa "Limbo")? Am I wrong stats people? Who also broke up due to declining sales leading to not even covering touring costs, at least that was the official statement.
― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
"Bright Yellow Gun" peaked at #20 on the Modern Rock Chart, which is odd considering how omnipresent it seemed the spring of '95.
Speaking of the Muses, I remember some of the promotion for University consisted of reminding people that "Hey! This is the band the Belly chick used to be part of!" This no doubt irked Kirsten Hersh.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://lawwww.cwru.edu/faculty/friedman/raw/images/American%20Flag.jpg
― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter (Awn, R), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter (Awn, R), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link