Category: Music → Throwing Muses - Anthology (2011)

Anthology, the first retrospective collection of Throwing Muses material, comes to us on the 25th anniversary of their (first) self-titled record, a stammering, brutal masterpiece that managed to capture both late adolescent angst and feelings well beyond its years. Producer Gil Norton made Hersh’s most intimate moments of near-delirium sound epic: like portions of someone’s diary blown up to billboard size. Ever wary of commercial appeal, the band said it didn’t want to make anthems, so before its next record its label 4AD passed Norton onto the opening act on the Muses’ European tour, fellow Bostonian scenesters Pixies, who were looking for someone to record their next album, Doolittle. Though the histories of the two bands are deeply, famously entwined, the Muses have enjoyed a fate harder to identify than the burden of being hugely influential (even though they were in certain corners: It’s almost impossible to imagine the visceral bleats of singers like Corin Tucker or Marissa Paternoster without Kristin Hersh). This moment of reunions, reissues, and boundless nostalgia seems a good time to ask: where did Throwing Muses fit in?...

Tracklist:

Disc: 1
01. Garoux Des Larmes
02. Finished
03. A Feeling
04. Marriage Tree
05. Fish
06. Hate My Way
07. No Way In Hell
08. Colder
09. Tar Kissers
10. Mr. Bones
11. Limbo
12. Summer St.
13. Furious
14. Bright Yellow Gun
15. Pretty Or Not
16. Flying
17. You Cage
18. Two Step
19. Vickys Box
20. Mania
21. Cry Baby Cry

Disc: 2
01. Hillbilly
02. Same Sun
03. Amazing Grace
04. Cottonmouth
05. Cry Baby Cry
06. Manic Depression
07. Snailhead
08. City Of The Dead
09. Jak
10. Ride Into The Sun
11. Handsome Woman
12. Like A Dog
13. Crayon Sun
14. Red Eyes
15. Tar Moochers
16. Serene Swing
17. Limbobo
18. If
19. Heel Toe
20. Take (Live)
21. Finished (Live)
22. Back Road (Matter Of Degrees)

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