The first time I head this song it scared me, and still today this song will send shivers down my spine. Strangely this song about death row, from a prisoners point of view was the point where nick cave was accepted buy the mainstream. Finally the world understood His black sence of humor
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The song is such a sad song, It is the the come down from the overdose which is the rest of the album.
Jane is a real person who was addicted to heroin, and was always "Goin' Kick Tomorrow"
This is the sound of a band with their soul laid bare.
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Some times music should scare you, it should challange the way you look at the world, the way you listen to all other music. this track does that and more,
It's Dance music you can't dance to/
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The Human League, are often dismissed as "Tacky Synth pop one hit wonders" But under this pop edge is a art band trying to get out, They were consatly reinventing, and pushing their boundries. This was the lead single for the bands 4th album, where they recreated themselves yet again.
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John Peel has Teenage Kicks, I have My Pal
In a perfect world this song would have been number one across the world. This track written by irreligious 16 year olds in 1987 shows you their dark world, in a perfect dissonant pop song
It still send shivers down my spine, if you only listen to one song on this blog, make it this one
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It was at this point when the temptations got sexy,gone are the sweet sounds of "My girl" Now the funk has taken over, and the got even the whitest suburban boy dancing.
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if you are going to do a cover you need to make it your own, Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenter's classic, not only did this, but the made it even more haunting and distant. It still send a shiver down my spine when the chorus kicks in
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Mansun often get get lost in the wash of brit-pop. but really they were so much more that a 3 min pop song about a pub in london. Six was their second outing, which was like their first album, self produced. and it is this forsite as a young band which allowed them to turn the recording studio in to a instrument. Being a girl, the first sign off the album is a perfect piece of pop
For the first time, a song could be 10 mins long and have you on a razor's edge the whole way. the guitar lines dive between each other, before pulling in different directions, So many of todays bands own more than a debt to Televsion.
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