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Jun 14, 2019 · In November 2017, the Northwest underground stalwart suffered a stroke that nearly killed him and wiped his entire musical catalog (including the Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M., and many more) from his memory.
Jun 11, 2019 · Scott McCaughey, the ever-smiling, sunglasses-wearing front man of the bands The Minus 5 and the Young Fresh Fellows, and side man to countless bands — including M. Ward, The Baseball Project, Tired Pony, and R.E.M. — suffered a stroke while on a West Coast tour with Alejandro Escovedo.
- “Plascent Folk”
- “My Collection”
- “Beacon from Rko”
- “Bleach Boys and Beach Girls”
- “My Master Bull”
- “Beatles Forever”
- “Message of Mother”
- “Well in Fact She Said”
- “MRI”
- “Pink Bag For Rip Torn”
So I had to look up “Plascent Folk” and I found few results. I had to look it up too because it’s not a word (laughs). I think I wrote it at the top of the page that that would be the name of the song. I thought it was a word, but it wasn’t (laughs). I don’t know what I was thinking of, but right from the start that’s what it was called. It’s a fit...
Is the collection in reference to anything in particular? I think part of it was thinking about my records and books, and how I always want everything to be complete. I’m kind of a weirdo like that. If I find somebody’s books, or their records, I want to have all of them. I’m kinda realizing that it’s futile because I’m not going to live long enoug...
RKO was a record label, right? It was a movie studio. Kind of an independent competition against the big studios. It was an outsider. I think Howard Hughes owned it at one point. It’s based on, when I was back here after the hospital, I was watching Turner Classic Movies all the time. And we figured out how to put on the closed captions. I was just...
This one I have no idea what I’m singing about. No idea (laughs). “The world is one big towel” is the only line that makes any sense, and it’s not in the notebook. I added that later. I was like, ‘That’s actually good, I’ll put that in there.’ John Moen played drums on it and he’s like, ‘What are you singing at the end?’ ‘Slim Jays!’ What the hell ...
You included a little hospital audio snippet about blood pressure in the intro. Was that something you considered adding more of? I put that thing on last minute. I got it off a Sound Effects record. They had some hospital sounds in there but that was the one little bit that I put in. I’d never taken my own blood pressure before and we had to get a...
This is the first one I wrote. That’s Jeff [Tweedy] on bass. I just had to change that line about the broccoli. [‘So the tired wan broccoli / Drip cast beer butter’] It was just too weird to sing (laughs). And I’m sure when I wrote it I wanted to write something else but my brain couldn’t manage it. Is that a problem you normally have? Now I have i...
This might have been one of the first ones I recorded. Joe Adragna did a lot on this. I think I sent him the piano and drum machine and voice. And he added drums and guitars from his studio outside New Orleans. Really cool guitars, really great. This one I was writing to my mom about my mom. I don’t know why. She had died about a year before the st...
This one I wrote on the computer in the hospital too. I don’t know what I was going after. But I love the chorus. The words are totally strange words, but the way I spit them out, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s really good! But what am I trying to say?’ Who knows! Do you worry at all about how the album will be received? No. I don’t ever worry about that...
It’s pretty obvious that I was waiting to go in for an MRI when I wrote this. And I was scared. Apparently — I’ve blacked this out — I had already had one at the first hospital and it didn’t go well. I went insane, crawling out of the tube. That’s the polite way of putting it. The N Judah is a street car in San Francisco — not sure why I mentioned ...
There has to be a story behind this one. This came a little later. It was something Linda [Pitmon] said at some point. It could have been when I was in the hospital, or later — I thought I heard her say ‘Pink bag for Rip Torn.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ She had said something totally different. But I was like, that should be a song! So I wanted...
Jun 14, 2019 · The Minus 5. Released June 14, 2019. Stroke Manor Tracklist. 1.
Jun 10, 2019 · The mere existence of Stroke Manor, the new album by the Minus 5, is a miracle and a testament to the power of music therapy. The fact that Stroke Manor is a groovy damn album is a...
Jun 14, 2019 · Listen to Stroke Manor by The Minus 5 on Apple Music. 2019. 13 Songs. Duration: 42 minutes.
Jul 23, 2019 · The Minus 5 Stroke Manor Yep Roc [2019] Album Review: In November of 2017, Scott McCaughey, the central figure in The Minus 5 alongside Peter Buck, who also played an auxiliary role in R.E.M. when it was active, had a stroke that pretty much stripped all knowledge of music from his memory.
