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**Janszoon** · 11-26-2008, 02:32 PM

Indio—Big Harvest
It's funny, the type of music on this album—which could best be compared to Sting or Peter Gabriel—is not a style I really have any interest in any more but this album is very close to my heart. Let me tell you why: I bought this tape in 1990 when it was only one year old and I was only thirteen. I loved this album and it was there for me during that awkward time of life, including one of my first experiences with heartbreak when the first girl I ever got to second base with dumped me. Anyways a few years later the tape deck in my car ate the thing and considering what a soft spot I had for the album, I was really bummed. What made it worse was my discovery that the album had gone out of print and was the only thing ever released by the band. And so began a several year search for the thing on CD. I started making it a habit, every time I passed by a used CD store I'd pop in and check to see if they had it. After three or four years of doing this, one day I finally struck gold. I couldn't believe my eyes, I nearly had a heart attack I was so excited. I don't listen to it much any more but it's still easily my most treasured CD. Interestingly, Eddie Vedder covered one of the songs off this album last year for the soundtrack of the movie Into the Wild, so I wonder if that has lead to the album being rereleased or not.

There's actually also a funny addendum to this story. Only a few months after I found the CD I stumbled across another copy of it on CD. I was kind of shocked that it took so many years to find the first one only to find a second mere months later by total accident. I bought it and gave it to the girl I was dating at the time because she was a huge Sting fan and thought she might like it. Now fastforward about six or seven years, that girl and I have long since broken up and lost touch and I had just started dating the woman who is now my wife, and I get a phone call from the girl I gave the CD to. She says she had taken the CD booklet out of the case for the first time and a little note from me that she had never noticed before fell out. So even though it's been over six years since we last spoke, she tells me how she's sorry for the way she broke up with me all those years ago and asks if I'm seeing anyone now. I tell her I am, but we continue to have a pleasant catching-up type of conversation during which she casually mentions that she's naked. I pretty much ignore the comment and continue having a friendly conversation with her for a little while longer, then we say goodbye and I never hear from her again.

So as you can see, I have a long and sordid history with Indio's Big Harvest and I guess that's why it's still near and dear to my heart.

11-26-2008, 02:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Indio—Big Harvest It's funny, the type of music on this album—which could best be compared to Sting or Peter Gabriel—is not a style I really have any interest in any more but this album is very close to my heart. Let me tell you why: I bought this tape in 1990 when it was only one year old and I was only thirteen. I loved this album and it was there for me during that awkward time of life, including one of my first experiences with heartbreak when the first girl I ever got to second base with dumped me. Anyways a few years later the tape deck in my car ate the thing and considering what a soft spot I had for the album, I was really bummed. What made it worse was my discovery that the album had gone out of print and was the only thing ever released by the band. And so began a several year search for the thing on CD. I started making it a habit, every time I passed by a used CD store I'd pop in and check to see if they had it. After three or four years of doing this, one day I finally struck gold. I couldn't believe my eyes, I nearly had a heart attack I was so excited. I don't listen to it much any more but it's still easily my most treasured CD. Interestingly, Eddie Vedder covered one of the songs off this album last year for the soundtrack of the movie Into the Wild, so I wonder if that has lead to the album being rereleased or not. There's actually also a funny addendum to this story. Only a few months after I found the CD I stumbled across another copy of it on CD. I was kind of shocked that it took so many years to find the first one only to find a second mere months later by total accident. I bought it and gave it to the girl I was dating at the time because she was a huge Sting fan and thought she might like it. Now fastforward about six or seven years, that girl and I have long since broken up and lost touch and I had just started dating the woman who is now my wife, and I get a phone call from the girl I gave the CD to. She says she had taken the CD booklet out of the case for the first time and a little note from me that she had never noticed before fell out. So even though it's been over six years since we last spoke, she tells me how she's sorry for the way she broke up with me all those years ago and asks if I'm seeing anyone now. I tell her I am, but we continue to have a pleasant catching-up type of conversation during which she casually mentions that she's naked. I pretty much ignore the comment and continue having a friendly conversation with her for a little while longer, then we say goodbye and I never hear from her again. So as you can see, I have a long and sordid history with Indio's Big Harvest and I guess that's why it's still near and dear to my heart.