I grew up in a northern redneck Canadian town, where the music was very commercial country or (for the wild at heart) top 40 stuff. I was bored silly by it all, and in pre-Internet days that was a deep boredom.
In my teens, a friend went away to a Big City (Montreal) and came back with recordings of The Sugarcubes. That evening around the stereo is one of my happiest memories.
