Random Friday Night Listening Party: Indigo Girls -- Come On Now Social

August 31, 2018 5:28 PM

Politically fired up, more musically aggressive than ever, Indigo Girls' 1999 album [Discogs, lists musicians by track] Come On Now Social [YT playlist] is a call to action and reflection of society that perhaps resonates even more nearly 20 years later. Cassette Side A: Go [background], Soon To Be Nothing, Gone Again, Trouble [Bonus Live Performance -- official video of 2000 Fillmore performance] [background], Sister, Peace Tonight, Ozilline [background]

Cassette Side B: We Are Together, Cold Beer And Remote Control [background], Compromise, Andy, Faye Tucker [background] (including hidden tracks [skip to 6m54s] Sister (Reprise) and Philosophy Of Loss) [Bonus Live Performance -- 2000 Fillmore performance of Philosophy Of Loss]

posted by hippybear (10 comments total)

Bonus: Oct 11, 1999, (less than two weeks after the album Sept 28 release date), The Beacon Theater, NYC. (very old single camera bootleg with halfway decent sound) [1h42m] (This is a band who is feeling very confident about their material.)

Odd fact: album name comes from Amy Ray's song Measure Of Me.
posted by hippybear at 5:28 PM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

"Who here is like, 'honestly, I don't even know who the Indigo Girls are.'?"
posted by acidnova at 5:42 PM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

Your Roommate Plays the Indigo Girls. (Brunching Shuttlecocks is no longer online, which is very sad, but it seems to survive on Internet Archive, which is very yay.)
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:45 PM on August 31, 2018 [2 favorites]

That Amy Ray song is on her magnificent debut solo album Stag which is a masterpiece and features Joan Jett, The Rock A Teens and The Butchies. So. good.
posted by eustacescrubb at 5:48 PM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

I once saw The Butchies open for Indigo Girls. They were totally excellent.
posted by hippybear at 5:52 PM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

Wow, my dubious & ancient mp3s of this don't include the hidden track. So I've finally heard the full album now!
posted by joeyh at 6:37 PM on August 31, 2018

I was basically raised on folk music and then I hit my teens and through the magic of the fledgling internet worked out that a) oh god I liked girls and b) the girls who liked girls ALSO liked folk music, and this was how I ended up listening to the Indigo Girls. I don't often pick them back up now but man was this a nice reminder.
posted by Sequence at 6:59 PM on August 31, 2018

I just saw them in April, and I felt like I was 22 again. I really needed this.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 11:16 PM on August 31, 2018

Although this was never one of my favourite albums, I have a weakness for the fact that they put Melbourne in one of the songs. Even if they did say it wrong.
posted by Athanassiel at 1:21 AM on September 1, 2018

The Indigo Girls have a way of transporting me back to my high school art room, the painting studio in Kamerick Art Building at University of Northern Iowa, and Friday evenings spent discussing the weeks events with my parents. There is nostalgia and a touch of rebellion in their music that makes me want to smoke pot and discuss the merits of non-representational art.
posted by DelightfullyTacky at 4:36 PM on September 1, 2018 [1 favorite]