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The Minus 5:
🎵 The Town That Lost Its Groove Supply (Seattle/In Rock version)
https://theminus5.bandcamp.com/track/the-town-that-lost-its-groove-supply
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from the album Down With Wilco
Let The Rope Hold (Cassie Lee) – The Minus 5
https://wgom.org/2025/12/16/let-the-rope-hold-cassie-lee-the-minus-5/
The Minus 5 - Oar On, Penelope!
You look at a title like that and you expect it to be a palindrome...
Scott McCaughey seems to have recovered from his stroke, which is great (here's hoping Matthew Sweet can do the same), and he's joined by the usual panoply of indie/Power Pop superstars (Peter Buck, Patterson Hood, Spencer Tweedy, Debbi Peterson, Kurt Bloch, and Linda Pitmon), and a bunch of great guitar-pop tunes.
Pretty great!
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The Minus 5:
🎵 Blow in My Bag
from the album Oar On, Penelope!
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The Minus 5:
🎵 Words & Birds
from the album Oar On, Penelope!
The Minus 5 - Down with Wilco
Another fun album of melodic, Beatles-influenced pop from McCaughey and a bunch of others orbiting late-period REM (including Peter Buck and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies), plus backing from folks from Wilco.
All that said, it doesn’t sound like a Wilco or REM album…it’s definitely McCaughey’s…
Today’s listening is ‘Old Liquidator’, the 1995 album by The Minus 5.
The members of The Minus 5 vary from album to album and on this outing the band comprised Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer.
I have to say that I don’t like this album very much!
Any melodies are interspersed with plonky tuneless piano runs and screeches of guitar in a very discordant way.
They went on to much better things!
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