Slint (lead singer Brian McMahan pictured). It was released on March 27,
1991, through Touch and Go Records. Featuring dramatically alternating
dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album
contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation. Spiderland was
Slint's first release on Touch and Go, and the group's last record. The
title originated from McMahan's younger brother, who thought that the
record sounded "spidery". Although Spiderland was not widely recognized
on its initial release, it eventually sold more than 50,000 copies and
became a landmark album in underground music after Slint broke up. Its
popularity increased in part after the appearance of the track "Good
Morning, Captain" on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Kids. The album has
been highly influential on the styles of many bands in the post-rock and
math rock genres, including Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and
has been named a favorite of several indie rock musicians. In 2007,
Slint reunited for a tour consisting of performances of Spiderland in
its entirety.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1329:
Pope John XXII issued a papal bull that some of the works of
German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart>
1782:
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading
British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as
Prime Minister of Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham>
1850:
San Diego, the first European settlement in what is now
California, was incorporated as a city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego>
1981:
The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the
biggest strike in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12
million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_warning_strike_in_Poland>
1993:
Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the
People's Republic of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fan death:
The urban legend originating in South Korea that if an electric fan is
left running overnight in a closed room it can cause the death of those
inside.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fan_death>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide The sun's
meridian glow; The heel of a priest may tread thee down, And a tyrant
work thee woe: But never a truth has been destroyed; They may curse it,
and call it crime; Pervert and betray, or slander and slay Its teachers
for a time. But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round
we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be
done.
--Charles Mackay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay>
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