Author Archives: robert duffy

From the site:
“For the entire year of 2003 (January 1st to December 31st) this page will feature one mp3 file (every day) to download. The content will be focused on musical pieces, but will also include spoken word. Listeners of the incredibly strange and outsider realm take note, for this is the majority of material that will be made available. Obscure and out-of-print recordings will be the primary focus, although once in a while there may be a change. The year 2003 is a normal year, with 365 days in total, which comes out to 365 songs that will be made available. Carefully hand-picked pieces I might add. Some days may leave you begging for more and others may leave you cursing my good name. Regardless the bottom line of this is to share with you all.” (get it!)

For those of you who don’t pay attention to left navigation links, you might like to know that I also write a column about the Cols. Ohio music scene, appropriately titled OH Columbus! You can find it right here.

Back in the summer, when I was still planning out what donewaiting.com was going to be, I decided to launch the message board before the site. Delphi was the easy way to go: it took about 4 minutes to set up, and I was familiar with the software after being a mildly active member in the Warren Ellis forum. I was itching to get something out there.

Now that we’re launching the full donewaiting.com experience this month, it’s time for us to close the doors on Delphi. It was a good means to an end, but I’ve been told by many people that they simply don’t like the delphi experience. Too many ads, too hard to navigate, etc. All valid concerns. We’ve also not been able to register many new delphi users, people who we didn’t steal from the comic book community.

With this in mind, I invite you to head on over to our new message board. It can be found here.

The paint is still drying on it, and we’re still populating the board with messages. But we think you’ll like it.

So it’s 1992/1993. I’m a freshman in Clifton High School in NJ. Up until then I was all about classic rock. This was back in the days when NYC’s K-ROCK played “Howard Stern all morning, classic rock and roll all day.” Things like The Doors movie shaped my listening habits.

But then things changed for me. Seattle rocked the world, and the rest is history. Just look at these releases that came out when I was a young Bob Duffy in high school: Pearl Jam’s “Ten.” Nirvana’s “Nevermind.” REM’s “Out of Time.” U2’s “Achtung Baby.” Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream.”

These are all important releases of the 90s, and some of the best work these bands ever put out. To this day, I consider all of those records among my all time favorites, and they all helped shape the music that I still love today.

Around that same time, though, there was another release that might have had a bigger impact than any of those records. It was the album that showed me that there’s more to rock than what you hear on the radio (though, during that time, things I heard on the radio I loved, so I dont mean to take away from that). That record was Sonic Youth’s “Dirty.”

It was “Dirty” that opened my ears to the indie world, when I fell in love with bands like Pavement, Space Needle, Varnaline, Archers of Loaf, too many to remember. It was a fun time for music. It still is.

The reason why I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy and nostalgic is because “Dirty” is getting the re-release treatment. Remastered, lots of extra goodies to be included on the album. Read about it here.

Some people don’t like “Dirty,” considering it the album where Sonic Youth started to suck. Not me. This is the record where I discovered them, fell in love, and started to learn to appreciate the beautiful sound of guitar feedback.

I can still remember the first time I saw the video for “100%” on 120 Minutes. Skateboards and rock, a perfect combination.

I can never forget you – the way you rock the girls
they move a world and love you – a blast in the underworld
I stick a knife in my head – thinking ’bout your eyes
but now that you been shot dead – I’ve got a new surprise