A Head Full of Wishes is a site for Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Dean Wareham. With news, articles and lists of releases and past and future shows.
On Fire commentary by Dean Wareham on Pandora
Dean Wareham has recorded some commentary on Galaxie 500’s masterpiece On Fire for Pandora
The streaming music service Pandora currently has a playlist where Dean chats about the making of On Fire. I think the playlist is for subscribers only but if you aren’t subscribed you can sign up for a free 60 day trial. Non-US users might need to find a way of preteending they’re from the US - but that’s not hard - and a PayPal account and GMail address and a Zip code are all fairly easy to come by :)
Dean Wareham on Galaxie 500’s On Fire playlist on Pandora
Snowstorm, one of our slowest songs… well, it’s really all about the… well it’s a great bassline, and the wah pedal, I was playing a wah-wah pedal because there happened to be one sitting at Kramer’s studio. I think it belonged to Sonic Youth who used to rehearse there. So the wah, and the bassline and the cymbal splashes… and lyrically it’s a song not so much about a snowstorm but how excited the local news people and the weather people get when a storm’s approcahing… they sort of go into a frenzy.