matt of the national grows up listening to queen is dead
https://pitchfork.com/features/podcast/the-national-matt-berninger-explains-his-biggest-influences/
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...Jump to high school, and my sister joined a Columbia record house or something like that. It was great, it was a lot of music for really cheap. And my sister brought home—I remember in that first batch—she had The Queen Is Dead, she had Under a Blood Red Sky, by U2.
SS: The live one?
MB: Yeah, the live one. I think she also had Violent Femmes. And so I remember it wasn’t until I was like a sophomore or something that I then heard Violent Femmes and then I heard The Queen Is Dead.
When I was riding around on a golf cart, picking up—I worked at a driving range. And so I worked the front, you know, I washed the balls. I worked at the front counter, I worked at the candy desk, I fixed the video game. This was right down the road from where I lived in Miamitown, Ohio, and it was called Green Tee Golf Range and it was my first job job.
And I would have to go around and pick up all the balls, with a cage over this golf cart that was souped up with a better engine so it would go faster and it could push the racks that picked up on the balls. I would drive around listening to The Queen Is Dead nonstop.
And so there’s all these douchebag golfers trying to hit me. ’Cause that’s what you do when when you’re at a golf range and the guy in the cart goes out to pick up the balls. It’s like, “Finally, a target!” And the cage was like just regular fencing. So the balls, the holes were this big, so if they hit a line drive it could hit me right in the face anytime. Because the balls were much smaller than the holes in the f***ing cage were. Dads from the parish, who I’d see in church, are up there trying to nail me with their drivers. They pull out their 2-irons so they could get a nice low shot to take out one of my tail lights.
And I was listening to “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side” the whole time.
SS: Which is a real album with a kind of persecution complex to it.
MB: I totally connected with Morrissey and all his frustration and his desperate need for everybody just to listen to what he’s trying to say.
https://pitchfork.com/features/podcast/the-national-matt-berninger-explains-his-biggest-influences/
Excerpt:
...Jump to high school, and my sister joined a Columbia record house or something like that. It was great, it was a lot of music for really cheap. And my sister brought home—I remember in that first batch—she had The Queen Is Dead, she had Under a Blood Red Sky, by U2.
SS: The live one?
MB: Yeah, the live one. I think she also had Violent Femmes. And so I remember it wasn’t until I was like a sophomore or something that I then heard Violent Femmes and then I heard The Queen Is Dead.
When I was riding around on a golf cart, picking up—I worked at a driving range. And so I worked the front, you know, I washed the balls. I worked at the front counter, I worked at the candy desk, I fixed the video game. This was right down the road from where I lived in Miamitown, Ohio, and it was called Green Tee Golf Range and it was my first job job.
And I would have to go around and pick up all the balls, with a cage over this golf cart that was souped up with a better engine so it would go faster and it could push the racks that picked up on the balls. I would drive around listening to The Queen Is Dead nonstop.
And so there’s all these douchebag golfers trying to hit me. ’Cause that’s what you do when when you’re at a golf range and the guy in the cart goes out to pick up the balls. It’s like, “Finally, a target!” And the cage was like just regular fencing. So the balls, the holes were this big, so if they hit a line drive it could hit me right in the face anytime. Because the balls were much smaller than the holes in the f***ing cage were. Dads from the parish, who I’d see in church, are up there trying to nail me with their drivers. They pull out their 2-irons so they could get a nice low shot to take out one of my tail lights.
And I was listening to “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side” the whole time.
SS: Which is a real album with a kind of persecution complex to it.
MB: I totally connected with Morrissey and all his frustration and his desperate need for everybody just to listen to what he’s trying to say.
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