Melissa Auf der Maur
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1,702 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Mar
Melissa Auf der Maur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then meanwhile, you know, in terms of for other people's perspective, Darcy and James being your bookends, which I write about in the book, of why I ended up, because I was 19, I didn't, I loved music, but I didn't play music yet.
But all in one summer, I saw The Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, and Hole.
Every single one of them were cool, wallflower, stoic girls on bass.
And it was not intellectual, but I understood that's my position.
That's where I could fit in.
But there was... So between Darcy and this effeminate other...
person on the stage.
I'm like, this is welcoming.
And I obviously noticed Jimmy.
Jimmy, as a bass player, that was the other kind of, like, missing part, too.
He seemed like a radically incredible drummer compared to the more kind of punk... I hadn't been impressed.
So, between the rhythm section, you're commanding, like,
strangle, play.
You're in a rock band.
Well, also, we should talk about in terms of
What made the pumpkins different, which actually is what I think the inspiration I got when you kind of parted the sea for me, is that I had missed... I grew up with the 80s, the Cure, the Smiths, which obviously you have a love for Depeche Mode, all that too, but what I had missed was...
Glam, classic rock, and so I went from, like, that to punk to grunge.
I did not understand.
Even, like, I had kind of missed Sabbath.
Like, I did not have riff-oriented, so I... That was my gateway to all of that, was even it felt more who I am, which is more fantastical, more fantasy, more romantic.
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