“…I have an indellible memory-snapshot of the moment I first touched, and was touched by (or maybe ‘rearranged by’) REM’s ‘Murmur.’ In the early ‘80’s my BFF David Wain’s dad worked in radio, and so we always had promotional copies of whatever was being pushed on any given week. Amidst one week’s booty was a dark, kind of murky-blue album cover sitting by the Wain record player (a photo of kudzu or something? I looked for this fecundity everywhere when Shudder To Think first made it down to Athens, Ga.) that seemed weird, Other.
We put the album on, staring directly at the vinyl on the turntable, which is often what I did when not staring, unblinking, at an album’s cover. What came out was perplexing and awesome, didn’t quite compute–it wasn’t punk or new wave, which was increasingly becoming ‘our’ music, but neither was it familiar radio-rock.
This may have been my first experience with music that I don’t immediately ‘get,’ but whose siren song keeps me coming back until I am utterly drowned. From then on, as I grew older and became a much more discriminating, obsessive vinyl collector, I would increasingly seek that peculiar, vertiginous sensation that I first felt with David’s copy of ‘Murmur’…”
That was Craig Wedren from our SXSW Preview/First Date this month. I bet more than a few of you have had a similar experience.
We’ve got a copy of Craig’s new 7″ single “Are We” to award of one of you as to be similarly mesmerized, ala Craig’s “Murmur” memory.
Craig Wedren | Are We
How do you win it, you’re asking? Spill a similar story to Craig’s in the comments to this post and the most interesting of the bunch with find the new single in his or her mailbox. We’ll give you a full week to conjure your magical, musical tale and choose a winner on 4/6.
And, if you haven’t seen it yet, you truly owe yourself a visit to Craig’s official site to check out the stunning 360-degree video that accompanies “Are We…”
