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'90s Music SubBoard: Revisiting The Connells' "Ring" Album
Posted on 12/20/13 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 12/20/13 at 2:56 pm
Where do you think it ranks for that decade?
Does it still stand up for you?
Hadn't listened to it in years until this morning. Holds up surprising well to me.
Saw them live during the '90s at the Varsity. Fondest memory was watching the singer chain smoke the audience's used cigarettes throughout the band's performance.
"74-75"
"Slackjawed"
"Carry My Picture"
"Hey You"
"New Boy"
Wiki
Does it still stand up for you?
Hadn't listened to it in years until this morning. Holds up surprising well to me.
Saw them live during the '90s at the Varsity. Fondest memory was watching the singer chain smoke the audience's used cigarettes throughout the band's performance.
"74-75"
"Slackjawed"
"Carry My Picture"
"Hey You"
"New Boy"
Wiki
This post was edited on 12/20/13 at 3:06 pm
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Posted on 12/20/13 at 3:46 pm to shutterspeed
I'm more of a fan of Fun and Games. Just bought the vinyl actually
Posted on 12/20/13 at 3:50 pm to hobotiger
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Fun and Games
That record is so fricking good! Nice purchase on the vinyl...
Ring was good, love 74-75...
Posted on 12/20/13 at 4:08 pm to TFTC
Wasn't familiar with the Fun and Games album--listening to it now. I'm surprised how tight it is. And '89?! Wow. It kind of reminds me of The Judy Bats' sound, actually.
This post was edited on 12/20/13 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 12/20/13 at 6:48 pm to shutterspeed
Great album. Great band Still touring.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 8:36 pm to shutterspeed
Went to high school in Raleigh and discovered Ring.
One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the post, I'm gonna have to break it back out.
One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the post, I'm gonna have to break it back out.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 8:47 pm to FleetFox504
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Great band Still touring.
Reading Wiki, it looks like a pretty different line-up. Looks like they still get together for a few shows a year--mostly in NC.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 8:47 pm to Jonas
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One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the post, I'm gonna have to break it back out.
Definitely a great weekend listen.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 8:47 am to hobotiger
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I'm more of a fan of Fun and Games
Fun and Games is an all time great. I view them as the ultimate college band in the likes of Drivin-n-Cryin and Widespread Panic.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 9:17 am to shutterspeed
Saw the play twice in the nineties. Surprisingly good band live . . . at least I was surprised.
Great pop band (and that's a compliment).
Great pop band (and that's a compliment).
Posted on 12/21/13 at 3:30 pm to shutterspeed
If there's a bigger fan of The Connells here than I am, I would be surprised. I like to think of Ring in the same way I think of Life's Rich Pageant. It does not have the same quality of single as the earlier albums, but from start to finish, it may be the best album of all of them. I say that and I don't really even like what may be the most well known song, 74-75. So many solid songs. Spiral and Burden have been hear by basically no one, and it's a shame.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 4:07 pm to AlxTgr
Agreed. I like "'74-'75", but not in the way that it's pretty much become the band's signature song.
Something about their sound just embodies everything I loved about college radio during the '90s.
Something about their sound just embodies everything I loved about college radio during the '90s.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 4:13 pm to shutterspeed
People have mentioned Fun and Games above. One Simple Word is also amazing.
Posted on 12/21/13 at 4:40 pm to shutterspeed
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Something about their sound just embodies everything I loved about college radio during the '90s.
same here but include late 80's/early 90's.
I put Chapel Hill area up there with Athens in terms of college bands. Probably a little more diverse too.
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