This tight, brisk, 3-minutes-and-change song gets blown up into an 8-minute, widescreen epic for the people of Belgium. There’s a 5-minute version on this free recording from a show in Nuremburg.
“Calling it “neo-feudalism” is unfair, to feudalism.”
The Love Language: Libraries. →
Really, really, really excellent record. Comes in under 32 minutes total running time. First rule of rhetoric: leave ‘em wanting more.
Only problem with this site: it is a Flash-based monstrosity. Fortunately, you can also stream it on the Merge Records site… where you can also buy it.
I don’t really go in for the lovelorn, teen angst thing… but damn, these guys do it perfectly. A hormonally-gigantic sound, sharp songwriting, and flawless sequencing. I love albums.
This fellow, also. God bless the Library of Congress.
Bo Weevil, from Frank Fairfield’s Daytrotter Session. To paraphrase myself, it was recorded in 2010, but sounds like something from 1930.
Oh yeah. This. →
Damn, but doesn’t this photo just perfectly encapsulate what Bruce was doing with Darkness on the Edge of Town? A rocker leaning on the headlight of a hot car, a car parked in his old neighborhood, with crappy, crusty snow in all the gutters… and the whole thing kinda looking, you know, tossed-off. Just perfect.
