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Magic Portals

22 Jan 2018

The Real Ramona

Arts, Music, TV & Film

The Real Ramona

<3 This week and continuing on from last show we hear from the 1991 Throwing Muses album, The Real Ramona. Released in 1991, it was the last album recorded by the band before the departure of founding member Tanya Donelly. The album marked the end of a time for the band, and a transition into a new one. The band’s two heavyweights, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, had been the anchor holding the entire group down. After this album, Donelly left and formed Belly, taking the bassist on this album, Fred Abong, along with her. Hence, the album can be seen as an epitaph to the early days of the band.

Paris Is Burning is the 1990 film that chronicles the New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality. Directed by Jennie Livingston and filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Some critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America. <3

Ep 49

00:00:53 – Throwing Muses – Counting Backwards

00:04:34 – Throwing Muses – Him Dancing

00:06:21 – Throwing Muses – Red Shoes

00:10:10 – Throwing Muses – Graffiti

00:13:10 – Throwing Muses – Golden Thing

00:16:15 – Throwing Muses – Ellen West

00:19:40 – Throwing Muses – Dylan

00:21:33 – Throwing Muses – Hook In Her Head

00:28:41 – Throwing Muses – Not Too Soon

00:32:51 – Throwing Muses – Honeychain

00:37:47 – Throwing Muses – Say Goodbye

00:41:50 – Throwing Muses – Two Step

00:47:10 – Throwing Muses – Garoux Des Larmes

00:50:13 – Throwing Muses – Pools In Eyes

00:53:25 – Throwing Muses – A Feeling

00:56:22 – Throwing Muses – Wolf After The War

 

Transitional Audio Clips

Paris Is Burning (1990) – Venus Extravaganza

Octavia St. Laurent – Queen Of The Underground

 

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