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Palm seems like the eternal Southern California teenager, seemingly always chasing the sun wherever he may go. He’s still at it, touring like crazy and heck, even skateboarding, too. Hinely lands in 1981 to take a retrospective look with Mike Palm at the title track to Agent Orange’s groundbreaking debut Living in Darkness.Īt this point I’ve done several of these song inspiration interviews and I was thinking “Hmm….who could I ask next?!” Then it dawned on me, Agent Orange’s Mike Palm. ” Next came Allen Clapp (of the Orange Peels and Allen Clapp & His Orchestra) and 1994’s “Something Strange Happens” followed by Kenny Chambers, of Moving Targets, on that band’s ’86 classic “Faith.” Now Prof. After that we dipped way back to 1970 for the proto-power pop of Crabby Appleton’s “Go Back ,” penned by frontman Michael Fennelly, and then fast-forwarded to 2000 for John Conley talking about his band the California Oranges and their pop gem “John Hughes. Next was Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom pulling back the curtain on one of his early gems: “Taillights Fade,” from 1992’s Let Me Come Over, cut with fellow bandmembers Chris Colbourn (bass) and Tom Maginnis (drums).

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To kick the series off, we asked Eric Matthews, of both solo and Cardinal fame, to talk about his classic number “Fanfare,” from his 1995 Sub Pop hit It’s Heavy in Here. From the 1981 album of the same name, originally released by the punk-as-fuck Posh Boy label.Įd note: We continue our series devoted to tunes that hold special places in our hearts and in our collective experience as devotees to and lovers of timeless indie rock.

Living in darkness album