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Most died of TB, the rest went insane

by DougJ|  September 12, 201111:50 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, We Are All Mayans Now

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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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  1. 1.

    SFAW

    September 12, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    am I crazy or is this one of the most poetic songs every written?

    Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?

  2. 2.

    Jewish Steel

    September 12, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    Love the Handsome Family.

  3. 3.

    Big Baby DougJ

    September 12, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    @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.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Mary

    September 13, 2011 at 12:05 am

    Haunted me from the first time I heard it, Doug.

  5. 5.

    zed

    September 13, 2011 at 12:24 am

    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.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5ZqqwEfJ4

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    Anoniminous

    September 13, 2011 at 12:59 am

    How about a little Björn Afzelius:

    http://www.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.)

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    dr. luba

    September 13, 2011 at 1:30 am

    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.

  8. 8.

    karen marie

    September 13, 2011 at 5:46 am

    @Anoniminous: This one‘s more my speed.

  9. 9.

    RossInDetroit

    September 13, 2011 at 9:10 am

    Brett and Rennie Sparks must be seen live to be appreciated. American Gothic at its weirdest and most compelling.

  10. 10.

    Kaleb

    September 13, 2011 at 10:28 am

    I love this song too, my wife and I made a video for it and added it to our punk/indie karaoke songlist: http://karaokeunderground.com/songlist.html

  11. 11.

    Winston Smith

    September 13, 2011 at 10:34 am

    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

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    Tom Hilton

    September 13, 2011 at 10:48 am

    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.

  13. 13.

    Anoniminous

    September 13, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    @karen marie:

    You’re right, I should have linked to Född fri.

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