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Pete Wolf's avatar

So true that last bit about curation. I have only recently stumbled across "Peel slowly and see", been playing it since. Especially the demo versions. And I haven't come anywhere close to the bottom of it yet. I wish some curator had told me before.... so many years wasted, again!

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Emily F. Popek's avatar

The ways we stumbled onto cultural artefacts were truly random. I traveled to Paris with my family in 1990 when there happened to be an Andy Warhol retrospective on display at the Centre Pompidou. I somehow picked up some tidbit of information about the Velvet Underground, probably from the signs or the pamphlet that accompanied that show. Maybe I saw a photo. I remember my dad being amused that I was so intrigued by this band, which he knew plenty about, but he told me to my dismay that he had sold or traded his copy of the peeling-banana record long ago. I ordered a copy of the cassette from our local record store when I got home and fell in love. I must have put "Femme Fatale" on a hundred different mix tapes in the years that followed. I did the same thing when I read Kurt Cobain name-drop The Vaselines in a Rolling Stone interview, and quickly got my hands on one of their albums. Like little passkeys into coolness.

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