i think they played upstate ny a lot so i remember radio advertisements as a child like "OUR LADY PEACE... CONCERT NOW.. GOTTA GET YOUR TICKETS" but i think elsewhere in the states they maybe weren't hyped as much
Man I love that song. I think they played it one time on my alt rock radio station in the 90s and I was listening at the time. Never heard it again and tracked it down years later with the help of the internet
i haven't seen any "grunge" bands live. i've seen old indie heroes like yo la tengo and kim gordon but as far as like.. chart selling bands of the nineties. none. i think it would be interesting
Man I love that song. I think they played it one time on my alt rock radio station in the 90s and I was listening at the time. Never heard it again and tracked it down years later with the help of the internet
that's similar to my story somewhat. I didn't have a music video channel anymore when this came out but i watched this show meant for teens on TFO (Ontario's french public TV channel) and they showed maybe 3 or 4 videos per show and they showed this one maybe two or three times at best over many months and it really stuck in my mind and also, i was learning to play bass then and i liked the bassline, even if really simple (and actually pretty much a cliche), and i remember i picked it up so it's why periodically this song always came back to my memory an i always remembered how the chorus went but pretty much nothing else but anyway, i looked for it infrequently before and somehow never found it until finally maybe 4 years ago it popped up in youtube suggestions probably after i'd watched other alt videos from the era and i was really happy about that. The thing is i always forget this damn band's name so even earlier when i wanted to post it i had to google intensively to find it again.... Never name your band with some boring name like Orbit. It sounds so 90's too...
I must insist on being a pessimist, I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
I had the Lifter and Orbit CDs. Lifter is a particularly baffling one because 1. that CD was pretty good 2. they did absolutely nothing after it. Their videos were Not Great.
Orbit was like The Toadies' "Tyler" in terms of Pixies devotion / rip-off. "Medicine" is a more enjoyable song, though. At some point I looked up that ice arena to see if I'd played hockey there since moving to Boston, because it looks kind of like the Skating Club of Boston (it is not).
Fun fact re: Orbit: I owned the CD but for a while I saw a vinyl copy of that album at Mystery Train in Gloucester with a NSFW cover, spoilered below. Every time I flipped past it I'd think "Uh hello." At some point after it sold I looked it up on Discogs and learned that it sells for a decent amount of money. Whoops.
when i play this song for people it seems like nobody remembers it outside of an occasional "lol polyphonic spree". i mean they were a much bigger thing in the dfw metroplex than the rest of the country so it makes sense but yeah it occupies the same space in my head as kevin smith movies.
hah, i got super into that tripping daisy song a few years ago, just through youtube. the bassist (or guitarist) died from drug addiction and then that singer had an awakening or something and started the polyphonic spree, right? kind of interesting.
I also had that Scheer CD. They were on 4AD and they had a weird combination of vaguely shoegaze / dream-pop type stuff and Big Riff Alt-Rock. Their artwork aesthetic, as shown earlier in the thread, really leaned into the grosser side of 4AD house style and I doubt it did them any favors.
i always like those weird reinvention stories. especially when you think of the polyphonic spree, too. it's probably part gimmick but part the truth too