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Fathering Lyrics. A lot of these guys never had any fathering. It's not something that comes to a man. Nine wives and nine kids and never bothering. It's not something that comes to a man. Well...
Mark Mulcahy. Released 1999. Fathering Tracklist. 1. Hey Self Defeater Lyrics. 2. Hurry Please Hurry Lyrics. 3. I Woke Up in the Mayflower Lyrics. 4. Tempted Lyrics. 5. In the Afternoon...
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An essay on Mulcahy's song "Hey Self-Defeater" (from the album Fathering) was featured in Nick Hornby's book Songbook. In 2003, Mulcahy was invited to sing a Haiku poem, "Haiku Three In The Museum Garden", by Nobel laureate George Seferis, on the international release of electronica band Sigmatropic Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories.
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Nearly impossible to track down until its digital reissue in September 2020, Miracle Legion’s 1983 debut EP A Simple Thing offers a glimpse at the band’s original, more austere aspirations. Though about half of this bite-sized demo tape would appear elsewhere in the Connecticut band’s studio canon, tracks like “Stephen Are You There” and future fan favorite “All for the Best” sound radically different played by the initial lineup of Mulcahy, guitarist Ray Neal, bassist Joel Potocsky, and drum...
Gladder is an extension of Miracle Legion’s 1988 compilation Glad, which paired three studio recordings with four excerpts from the band’s final stop on their 1987 tour with Pere Ubu. This 2021 reissue preserves the show in its complete glory, opening with a breathless transition from “Sooner” to “Mr. Mingo” that culminates in an ecstatic blowout of gritty lead guitar and harmonica. Mulcahy brought Ubu on stage for a set-closing performance of “Closer to the Wall” that featured a whopping thr...
Reduced back to a duo after the departure of their rhythm section, Mulcahy and Neal joined The Sugarcubes on their first North American tour in the summer of ‘88. The first half of I Am Einar, recorded at The Metro in Chicago, captures the Legion in an odd metamorphic stage, transposing their college rock scrappiness into the stripped-back folk rock that would appear on their sophomore album Me and Mr. Ray. Their 1984 breakout single “The Backyard” works quite well as a strummy, campfire sing...
Would you believe me if I told you that a short-lived sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon contained some of television’s greatest needle drops? The Adventures of Pete & Pete, launched in 1993 by writers Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi, demonstrated indie pop’s flair for recapturing the innocence of adolescence, using songs by shoegazers Drop Nineteens, little-known Flying Nunsignees Chug, and UK popkids Fat Tulips to underscore the show’s surreal nostalgic bent. Michael Stipe even made a cameo as...
Nearly 20 years after Pete & Pete first hit small screens, Polaris made its on-stage debut at Los Angeles’s Orpheum Theater, the stage decked out in astroturf and a picket fence to simulate the suburban environs of the show’s opening theme. The band’s sound is a bit stripped-back and loose compared to what you’ve heard on wax, but these alternate versions of Music From… classics make for a fun listen, especially thanks to the addition of guitarist Henning Ohlenbuschand keyboardist Philip Kroh...
Recorded two years later at The Knitting Factory, Polaris sound much more confident and creative on Snack Bar, sneaking a few new originals and Miracle Legion classics into their repertoire. “Great Big Happy Moonface” is the best of the new batch, opening with some Pavement-esque scatting and transitioning into a surprise “Hey Sandy.”
After the release of 1992’s Drenched, Miracle Legion spent nearly four years engaged in a legal battle with their label Morgan Creek Entertainment a film production company that made an ill-fated venture into the music industry during the early ’90s. Though Mulcahy would direct his creative efforts toward Polaris and Neal would take a short hiatus from music, the band managed to break free from their contract and produce a final effort in 1996: the aptly named Portrait of a Damaged Family. Mi...
Recorded at Oslo, Norway’s Bergenfest 2014, Poaching and Meddling is a live performance backed by Massachusetts journeyman Kenneth Maiuri, who hops between keys and drums over the course of the set. The extended version of “Love’s the Only Thing That Shuts Me Up” that appears on this record, heavy on the electric piano, is gut-wrenching.
The 2022 compilation Petals in the Well collects songs that Mulcahy was commissioned to write for films that ultimately went unused. The first half of the release, recorded for Mark Pellington’s 2017 film The Last Word, is full of pleasant guitar noodling in the style of Real Estate, with a few wordless dah-dah-dums that recall The Gilmore Girls’ soundtrack. Tracks nine through 15 were composed for Tom Gilroy’s Spring Forward (1999) and concentrate on twangier acoustic tones. “The Future of M...
Aug 12, 2011 · There are no sweet, summery pop-rock tunes here; most of Fathering consists of naked, unaccompanied electric guitar and Mulcahy’s strangely comforting voice, warbling through a set of longing, melancholic songs that almost beg to be heard at 3 the morning.
Sep 1, 1998 · Mark Mulcahy – Fathering. Artist: Mark Mulcahy. Album: Fathering. Archive Posted On September 1, 1998. Mark Mulcahy is the former lead singer of Miracle Legion, the band responsible for such jangly indie-rock classics as Surprise Surprise Surprise (1987) and Me And Mr. Ray (1989).
