Strange Pulse

There’s a bit of a big jump between this and the last entry (Indigo Girls), but I really didn’t listen to much music in the 90’s. I was into the Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, Tori Amos, Everything But The Girl when we lived in Sequim, a small town on the Olympic Peninsula. It was like living in a postcard. But Daniel lost his job and we had to move back to the Seattle area. I got a job working fulltime in downtown Seattle as a web developer while he went back to school for a mechanical engineering degree.

At my job I discovered a lot of music I hadn’t been exposed to before, including Brit pop. I never listened to the radio before that, but we often had the radio on all day at work. And when the radio wasn’t on, we had my boss’s 250 cd changer playing. An old penpal got ahold of me and we exchanged some music–he sent me a mix with a lot of Brit pop on it. In my mind, Coldplay is the best of the bunch, although a lot of people consider them “Radiohead lite” rather than Brit pop. I’ve never gotten into Radiohead–the vocalist annoys me–but I absolutely love Coldplay, and A Rush of Blood to the Head is one of my all-time favorite albums. We listened to that thing everyday for weeks and I never got sick of it.

I’ll post my favorite song from it on the radio.blog, top right.