Great bands you might not have heard #5: Mendoza Line
I wish I could remember where/why/how we first heard this band, all I remember is that it happened when we lived in our first place in LA. We heard this first track (maybe on Morning Becomes Eclectic or something??) and loved it, and I had to get the cd. The rest, as they say, is history.
Keeping in line with the rest of these posts, this band is also dead :(.
As always, click the images/links to play from my Vox page.
Any band with the balls for an album cover like that right? I mean, like Shannon McArdle’s voice – but she’s not exactly a looker and that is not a flattering picture.
Here are some other sample off their other albums. I’m not sure how best to describe their sound…maybe bi-polar folk-rock?
Anyway, take a listen and track down the albums if you like the songs, they are quality.
always meant to check them out
THANK YOU!!!
other suggestions for way.overlooked bands: Jawbox, (DC) Thin White Rope (Davis, CA), Come (Boston)
just got ’30 year low’ & it has a duet w/will scheff from Okkervil River…
Hooray for you!!!!!!!!!!
I’m lost on the hooray for you bit heh – but that duet is what originally turned me on to Okkervil. I think I have some Jawbox tracks lying around somewhere – I’ll look up the others, thanks!