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Galaxie 500 radio interview from summer 1989
Jen has just sent me this lovely 10 minute radio interview of Galaxie 500 from before the release of On Fire. Recorded for “Boston Rocks” on WFNX and touches on signing for Rough Trade, making videos, and the UK music press,
Dean: The English press is bizarre. It's just like really strange.
Damon: That's our, that's our latest new experience. The album just got to England and they're explaining to us what it means. It's a treat to find out.
Dean: Like they ask you really tough questions and you just go, hell, I don't know. So they decide.
Damon: But that's our image. So it's all right.
Dean: So like Melody Maker, the, you know, we tried as hard as possible just to say nothing like philosophical or nothing important, you know, in answer to all these big questions. But then like in the front of the magazine in the content section, it's Galaxie 500, the band that celebrates the demise of youth culture.
I’d guess this was from about August since they mention signing for Rough Trade “in the summer” and that they’re heading to the UK for a show in September.
Jen has a fabulous radio show, Cycles Per Second that you should listen to.