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MFor his part, Barber was a music junkie whose own journey began as an East Coast skater punk, discovering musical thrills in the form of CBGB's legendary hardcore matinee shows, via bands like Gorilla Biscuits. Signposts along his musical path — "I was always looking for something weird," he remembers — included Skinny Puppy, My Bloody Valentine, Slayer, the Smiths, Jefferson Airplane, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Lightning Bolt and the Fort Thunder noise scene, not to mention Beat Happening, the '80s indie-pop combo with a kid-like energy, to whom High Places have been compared. "I think it's always been more about energy to me than aggression," Barber said, "and in the early 2000s when I started getting into weirder music, the Brooklyn scene was more dark, noisy, male, smoky. It wasn't really me. I'm more outdoorsy. I was always more into more playful stuff, more hyper than aggressive."

Artists

• Incubator
• Two Thirty Eight (Two ThirtyEight)
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• Impulse Manslaughter
• Novastar
• Erase The Grey
• Du Husker
• Devo
• Nas
• Throbbing Gristle

Songs

• Lean On Me
• Cajun Woman
• Let The Reigns Go Loose
• Goin' Out Like Geez
• Make Me Happy
• Big Dick
• Bye Bye Baby
• Venus And Mars
• Judgement Ground
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