The alternative movement of the 90's was probably the closest the music business has ever come to the wonder that music created in the 60's and 70's--there were oodles and oodles of exciting bands, exciting songs, one hit wonders, and more than a few sleepers. This week's tune features one of those one hit wonders from alternative music's heyday....
Local H got its start as a four piece band in Zion, Illinois in 1990 when four high school friends got together and started a band...and that's the spirit that's keeps us coming back for more rock and roll. By 1993 the band had evolved into a two piece outfit, and continues to record and tour to this day in that incarnation. Guitarist Scott Lucas has teamed with three different drummers since Local H got its first recording contract. For their career the band has released nine studio albums, 7 EP's, and two live albums. They've also released 15 singles with only one of them breaking into the Billboard Hot 100. Local H is known for its many tours, and for its quirky concert ideas, among them letting a fan choose an album title of theirs out of a hat and performing that album in its entirety before breaking into a selection of their hits, or having a contest where bands perform a cover version of one of Local H's songs and having the winner open up for them on one of their tour dates. Good times, I'm sure.
Fun Fact: Local H got its name by taking a word and a letter from two songs by R.E.M.--"Oddfellows Local 151" and "Swan Swan H."
"Bound for the Floor" was released as a single in 1996 from their album As Good as Dead. The song was the most successful chartwise of their career, reaching #46 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album would hit #147 on the Billboard 200 (and was later certified gold).
"Bound for the Floor" is a teenage anthem about the frustrations of a lack of confidence...which is a frustration pretty much most teenagers can identify with. Lucas lets every teen's favorite emotion (anger!) fly in his vocals, and his three chord rock rules the day with his guitar. The drums bash throughout driving the song down the power pop highway, as the chorus simply and repetitively pulsates around your ears. Add in that it's one of the few (only?) pop songs to use the word copacetic (adjective meaning "in excellent order"), and you have a golden nugget from the angst driven glory days of the alternative movement.
Lyric Sheet: "And you just don't get it, you keep it copacetic/And you learn to accept it, you know it's so pathetic..."
Enjoy:
Peace,
emaycee
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