Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Misery Train - Suicide


suicide
Originally uploaded by 50pbloke.
Loaded Knife DJed at the Foundry on Saturday evening and this was favourably received. I like it when people come up and ask what record I'm playing, and this was the subject of one such inquiry (the other was Jungle Rock by Hank Mizell). The inquirer said she'd never heard anything like it.

What I love about this track (and the 2002 album American Supreme it came from) is that it sounds like vintage '77 Suicide, but the use of noughties technology means it sounds modern too. I think this is as good as anything Vega and Rev have done. A dreamy, hypnotic, ice-cold repetitive riff laced with Vega's rockabilly existential grunts.

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