Melissa Auf der Maur
speaker
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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It changed every cell in my body, which is why later, a thousand years later, I play that song, I hear that song, and I thought, wow, that is some amazing balls and confidence, and that's when I beelined to the side stage after the show.
It was so good.
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 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 base.
And it was not intellectual, but I understood that's my position.
That's where I could fit in.
Um, but there was, so between Darcy and this effeminate other...
person on the stage i'm like this is welcoming and i and i obviously noticed jimmy jimmy as a bass player that was the other kind of like missing part two he seemed like a radically incredible drummer compared to the more kind of punk i don't just i had years of most exactly he was light years ahead of most indie drummers so the 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.
You know, I was not a big, punk didn't resonate with me.
I want fantasy and drama.
like Depeche Mode and The Cure, or what you gave me, which was that.
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