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What's The Frequency Kenneth

Certain Songs #1740: R.E.M. – “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?”

January 31, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Monster
Year: 1994

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File Under Irony

Of course, by the time Monster — AKA “The Scary One” — came out two years later, everything was different. And I do mean everything.

I had moved out of Fresno and was living in Oakland, and had just discovered the World Wide Web, soon to be the source of the career path I’m still on. Also, the Wild Blue in Fresno had closed, cutting off a major venue for local bands, including one called “Kenneth, What’s The Frequency?” that had formed around the time Automatic For The People came out, but I think had broken up by then.

In the wider world, there wasn’t a World Series that year — sorry, Montreal Expos — and Kurt Cobain had killed himself, sending shockwaves throughout the music world about which I still cared deeply. The deaths of the Blue and Cobain, I think, were a major spur for me getting the hell out, as was leaving my job at the Video Zone, where I’d been since 1985. All of that stuff happened within a month or so of each other, a clear message that it was really now or never, I had to decide.

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