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"Hands up, who wants to die?........have you heard that sonny's burning?" the opening line to one of my favorite birthday party songs and one of my favorite drumbeats around. I never here these guys talked about on here and its time for that to change. They are hugely influential and are considered heroes of the butthole surfers and the jesus lizard.
I was just suddenly in the mood to listen to them yesterday and after playing their Hits disc Ive gained a deeper appreciation of their music. I love the way they use distorion and noise in their music and manicly effective vocals of nick cave. So many great songs like "the friend catcher", "mr clarinet", "king ink", "Dead Joe" and deep in the woods they all sound so menacing with piercing distortion coming from the guitars. Its easy to see why sonic youth took a liking to them early on in their career.
For the unitiated download these songs:
Mr. Clarinet
The Friend Catcher
Sonny's Burning
Big Jesus Trashcan
Deep In The Woods
Happy Birthday
Release The Bats
Hamlet
Dead Joe
WildWorld
I highly reccomend you check these guys out and for everyone else lets discuss how awesome they are.Favorite songs? (any of you ever see them live)
Also i want to know what would be a good record to start with for nick cave's solo career
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"I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time
Ill give it right back one of these days
If I dont meet you no more in this world then uh
Ill meet ya on the next one
And dont be late "
-Jimi Hendrix
...And me just another dream theory, lost inside your eye
"when my mind's uncertain my body decides
what it will do to get through the hell of the night
as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes
well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you"
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