Throwing Muses - Bright Yellow Gun (Official Video) 

kristen🎉❤

I saw them live at a block party put on by an independent radio station in the mid 90s. The peak of her vocal prowess. Never heard of the band before, never forgot it since.

Belly, really? Belly sounds like sweet lemonade compared to Kristin Hersh’s Throwing Muses (without Tanya Donnely that is).

true, a band is nothing without tanya donelly

@@lowceiling They're OK, but they're no Breaders.

I am more Hersh than Donelly, Both are great . . . I used to see Hersh in Providence annually. University was a revelation. This particular song was the third best on an exemplary album.

The Breeders

Shimmer is truly the outstanding track of the album imo

I bought the cassette and wore it out. Bought a 2nd one and wore it out. Finally got the CD.

Love snake face too

much louder

EXACTLY!!

I like all the great alternative hits from the 90's but this is in my top 5. Good stuff

always on my playlist. tight song

By 1996 alternative rock was dead

Difficult to find three musicians as proficient and tight as these three

I'm the same way about Dizzy

KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS ha, that’s actually the song she wrote when Warner Bros told them that they needed to make a song that was catchy and would get radio play...she hates Dizzy and they never played it again. (Kristin didn’t write songs on purpose - they came to her like audio hallucinations at 3 am...like a radio was playing in her head, she has said. So she had to force Dizzy out on command...Warner Bros later sued them for a bunch of $$ because they spent more money on TM than TM made for them...she never signed to a label again. started her own instead... Only song of Kristin’s that got major play was “Your Ghost.” I know that was waaaay more info than you ever didn’t ask for with your comment from a year ago...😂😂 I LOVE YOUR USERNAME!!!

The same here.

same!

??? Im speechless! What do you call the object the drummer hits at 01:04 ?

They were ahead of their time . They were described as "pop music for the 21st Century back in the late 80's in one UK music magazine.

He started playing drums in marching band in high school -- and was completely unaware that a drum set was supposed to have cymbals. He is incredible. One magazine called him "wristless" and they're so right...Mania is another song where he just blows me away...

@@ahousefellonme I'd also read that when they started out he couldn't afford them anyway. It's rare these days to see a rock drummer playing with a jazz grip, though. He DOES use cymbals on this track, though, just not much. And he always uses hi-hat cymbals.

W Bertie Yup!! You can find their demos from 1983, and you can hear the lack of cymbals...when they did their very first album, he had cymbals. I love how he hardly ever uses them, though...

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Correct! 😂

They have remained one of my favourite bands since I discovered them in 1991. If I am totally honest with myself I would probably have to admit they have been my _top_ favourite band during all these years.

@@maidsandmuses Right on. I first heard them in 1988 on the 4AD compilation Lonely Is An Eyesore (the title even comes from Throwing Muses lyrics). I've been a fan ever since, including Kristin Hersh's solo work and Belly.

I think you need a little poison

Yes, of course!😀

Here in Brazil were Dizzy and Fish, but, you know, we're talking about "indie success": airplay at college or "rock stations" and videos (on hot rotation, it's true!) at specific indie shows on public television. But this tracks, definitely, could ask for themselves the title of "minor hits" in Porto Alegre region (Southern Brazil). Amazing time of Feluspe FM, Cultura FM and Ipanema FM.

Keith Bate yes! I have that come album 11:11

Thanks for making me laugh out loud!!

Live in the now. I love this song, but nostalgia makes you old and irrelevant.

@@electrojones show me a song from the now with this kind of power and authenticity. Appreciating the strength of songs from the past doesn't make a person old and irrelevant. It simply means they know and appreciate quality music, which is timeless. And also, no need to disown one's youth to be "relevant."

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Holy shit I never noticed! So it is!

And the bride?

@@JC-yy8iv A great band, nonetheless-...

My CD of " Throwing Muses" was actually stolen from my car.

@@peggyfranzen6159 My condolences.

Kristen said in an interview the record company did not want to release a vid that shows smoking and they prob couldn’t figure out the vid anyway so they gave her 100,000 to make another one! Here’s a link for her, Tanya’s, and about 70 others! vimeo.com/womenofrockohp

Lol you’re forgetting a few. Even the most famous 4AD band is American

That's how I recall it. And that's how I recall it when this record was made. Could be more, now. "LOL- the new 'you-know, like...'"

MrPink By the time this came out, Pixies, Red House Painters, His Name is Alive,etc. had been there for years. Maybe Throwing Muses were first? Not only for long though

As I said, it's how I recall it. I'm always willing to be corrected.

@@WicksThings Throwing Muses was the first American band. The Pixies were second. In her freaking brilliant memoir "Rat Girl", she writes that 4AD called her repeatedly: "we want to sign you, but we don't sign American bands." "Okay," she said, and they hung up. These phone calls went on like this for awhile until they finally called and said they were going to sign them. "Okay," she said. Even people who have no idea who Kristin Hersh is should read "Rat Girl"...Rolling Stone calls it one of the best rock memoirs ever written. Her book about Vic Chesnutt is heartbreaking, too...

I like this band.

Around that time was a fashion for lounge music and the iconography of cabaret/vegas.

No.

this was after she left

@@duckyyyaj247 Ah, thank you!

Too bright.

@@erinoriordan9808 Too yellow. Too gunny.

@@andrewmiddleton3202 LOL