This Republican debate along with all the 9/11 idiocy of the past few days has put in a particularly apocalyptic mood. Tell me, am I crazy or is this one of the most poetic songs ever written? Or talk about something else.
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SFAW
Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
Jewish Steel
Love the Handsome Family.
Big Baby DougJ
@Jewish Steel:
I don’t know their other stuff. White people singing tunelessly over a static beat isn’t usually my thing and I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed. But this is, to me, one of the great songs ever.
Comrade Mary
Haunted me from the first time I heard it, Doug.
zed
Ten bajillion Kudos for the Handsome Family link. A day doesn’t go by where I wish I had his voice, well, his or Bill Callahan’s.
Of course, the counter to this is to hear a more recent song of theirs.
youtube.com/watch?v=cd5ZqqwEfJ4
Anoniminous
How about a little Björn Afzelius:
youtube.com/watch?v=rm-JzPO2OZ4&feature=feedf
Bäst av svenska Countrymusik! Bra! Bra! Bra!
(Note for the Swedishishly challenged: “bra” means “good,” not a reference to an intimate article of women’s clothing.)
dr. luba
Love, love, love this song. Heard it once several years ago and had to track it down. Found it on a roots collection, and played it so much I know every note by heart. Not sure why, but this song is hypnotically attractive.
karen marie
@Anoniminous: This one‘s more my speed.
RossInDetroit
Brett and Rennie Sparks must be seen live to be appreciated. American Gothic at its weirdest and most compelling.
Kaleb
I love this song too, my wife and I made a video for it and added it to our punk/indie karaoke songlist: karaokeunderground.com/songlist.html
Winston Smith
This is a great song, but I think Metric’s “Grow Up and Blow Away” is more poetic. It’s something about the combination of a sweet-sounding song and really depressing lyrics.
On YouTube.
If she weren’t writing in blood
She’d bring him her jokes
A new liver
And a shovel for the mud
If he were not knee-deep in mud
He’d bring her his drugs
He’d get her a typewriter
Tom Hilton
My first thought was that the redwood forest wouldn’t have “giant dripping leaves”–dripping, sure, but Sequoia sempervirens is a conifer, and not so much with the leaves, much less giant ones. Then I thought yeah, but there could be understory stuff like laurel that has good-sized leaves (and we can chalk up “giant” to poetic license). So I guess it’s okay.
Anoniminous
@karen marie:
You’re right, I should have linked to Född fri.