Hi. Welcome to my website. Here you'll find guitar transcriptions for the songs of KRISTIN HERSH and her bands THROWING MUSES and 50FOOTWAVE.


While certainly some of this music's appeal is based on Kristin's voice and her performance, I think it's the songs that make this music so special and beautiful. They're a good place to hide, they're good to hang out with - and they're fun to play on your guitar.

I'm always disappointed when I try to learn songs by other artists. They seem to fall apart once the production or the artist's singing is taken away. And they sound lame and boring on solo guitar.

Not Kristin's songs! They don't need exciting production, they sound good on their own. They sound so good that it even feels confortable to sing along.

You'll notice certain musical patterns that Kristin uses frequently. And you'll notice how those pattern are broken just when the listener gets used to them. There are many mood changes during the songs. Sometimes there even seems to be a fight going on between chords and melody - sounding close to the fight between life as it is and life as you want it to be.

But the best and most wondrous thing about her songs is:
You can try to analyze them lyrically. You can try to analyze what attracts you musically. You can try to take the songs apart. Never do they lose any of their magic.




So here are the new tablatures:

Songs from LEARN TO SING LIKE A STAR and SPEEDBATH:
in shock, nerve endings, day glo, ice, sugarbaby, peggy lee, winter, the thin man, blackstone, slippershell, torque, around dusk, morning birds.
Album versions of drive, houdini blues, the letter, buzz, shark, gut pageant.
Plus acoustic live versions of call me, mania and ellen west.
(last updated: 2008-05-11)

Have fun!
Timo (mail@thisship.com)




THROWING MUSES (1986)

call me
hate my way
rabbits dying
stand up
soul soldier
delicate cutters

fish
finished
cry baby cry
clear and great



HOUSE TORNADO (1988)

juno
marriage tree
run letter
drive

soap and water
you cage



HUNKPAPA (1989)

devil's roof
bea
mania
take



THE REAL RAMONA (1991)

counting backwards
red shoes
graffiti
ellen west
say goodbye
two step

same sun
cottonmouth



RED HEAVEN (1992)

furious
pearl
summer st.
rosetta stone

manic depression



HIPS AND MAKERS (1994)

your ghost
beestung
(piano - part1; part2)
teeth
sundrops
houdini blues
a loon
velvet days
me and my charms
tuesday night
lurch
the letter
hips and makers

the key
uncle june and aunt kiyoti
hysterical bending




UNIVERSITY (1995)

bright yellow gun
start
hazing
crabtown
teller
snakeface
flood



LIMBO (1996)

buzz
freeloader
the field
tar kissers
serene
mr. bones
night driving
shark



STRANGE ANGELS (1998)

home
like you
aching for you
some catch flies
stained
shake
hope
pale
baseball field
heaven
gazebo tree
gut pageant
rock candy brains
cartoons

panic pure



MURDER, MISERY AND THEN GOODNIGHT (1998)

sweet roseanne
whole heap of little horses

sinkhole



SKY MOTEL (1999)

echo
white trash moon
costa rica
cathedral heat
husk
caffeine
spring



SUNNY BORDER BLUE (2001)

your dirty answer
spain
37 hours
william's cut
summer salt
candyland
white suckers
ruby
flipside
listerine

hungry




THROWING MUSES (2003)

mercury
pretty or not
pandora's box
speed and sleep
portia
solar dip
los flamingos
half blast
flying

somewhere in america



THE GROTTO (2003)

sno cat
deep wilson
snake oil
vanishing twin
srb
silver sun
vitamins v
milk street



GOLDEN OCEAN (2005)

long painting
bone china
pneuma
clara bow
petal
sally is a girl
ginger park
diving

bug
glory weed
lavender



LEARN TO SING LIKE A STAR (2007)

in shock
nerve endings
day glo
ice
under the gun
sugarbaby
peggy lee
vertigo
winter
the thin man

blackstone



SPEEDBATH (2008)

slippershell
torque
around dusk
morning birds