Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona

FOR SOME OF US, the Throwing Muses' 1986 debut was one of those records, the kind that leaves you feeling your life has been changed in ways you can't define. Women friends have testified that it was the first time they encountered a purely female music of rage and be­wilderment that spoke directly to them. Where male angst is directed outward at the world, female vio­lence is implosive, turned inward to take shape in obsessive symptoms like anorexia or "delicate self­cutting.''