@@thejamnasium6447 my mother was dying in hospice when I discovered this song 5 years ago…adding “mama” to such poetry made me sob involuntarily…. “Listen. Listen.” My BIL is from Lorain; I’ve been there many times, and it completes the visuals of his dark lake lyrics… “Listen.”
you’ve got to love how they start off quiet, then they turn up their guitars and just blow your head clean off. they played with such abandon, it takes a really special band to make 3 chords sound like that.
I heard this song for the first time yesterday on my discover daily Spotify feature. I’ve been changed forever. Thank you Jason. This song is everything a song should be.
In another lifetime I was in this basement pub sitting alone in a dim corner table with a pint of beer which I had forgotten to drink from and a drop of tear in the corner of my eye. Farewell transmission.
i dont think its fair, but live...definitely a devastated Tonight's The Night vibe. (which is my favorite Neil Young album...so many great songs built on real devastation and loss), i find Molina the most honest and real songwriters of his generation, alongside Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound/Oblivians...from two different worlds, alone with a guitar...nobody comes close. Yes, there are better looking, better beards and bigger names, but nothing close. Cartwright survived and has found an audience outside the garage scene, Molina i discovered late through his loose and perfect live performances with this band, notably the Trials and Errors 2xlp which looks like ive had it for 30 years and moved backwards to Songs:Ohia. like the comment above, he was doing it his way and, Cartwright who has dodged major labels for years, finally found a home on Merge. Both can do it alone or with a band and both found a way to be future legends. If you have heard them, they probably mean a lot to you. If you are not aware of Gregs stuff, Reigning Sound (Break Up Break Down, Home For Orphans, Time Bomb High School, Too Much Guitar, Love and Curses--his work with Compulsive Gamblers--notably the double live lp, and a brand new lp are mostly flawless, but his solo stuff is no less powerful and pretty easy to find around here. I find a coolness in both of their "could care less about being cool" attitudes, real suffering and timeless songs.
"I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever The real truth about it is no one gets it right The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try"...... Hits big with all of us that struggle with addiction.
There's a high price to pay for respect...if you sell yourself out, it's easy to make money(relatively.) If you want to be remembered as one of the bests, then you're going to have to make sacrifices. It's not fair, but these guys had true respect, and that's something people seldom earn.
i guess but you know what? i kind of wish this guy didn't drink himself to death. great musician, great song writer, if he gave it up and just led a comfortable life in oberlin or whatever, tending to a vegetable garden, and not recording again, i'd feel a lot better about it. some old hippie said it's better to burn out than to fade away, which is bullshit. growing old an watching all your enemies die, and then making wax of their statues, and burying them, is the best.
No me puedo creer que estuvieras en Lleida y que no tuviera una especie de epifanía que me hiciera ir corriendo hacia ti tras el concierto a decirte que estamos de tu parte. Empiezo la mañana con Spotify, veo la escoria que la plataforma selecciona para mí como música del momento y pierdo la fe en este mundo que eleva a los altares a verdaderos oligofrénicos y permite que gente con tu talento pase de puntillas, como pidiendo perdón, y completamente inconsciente de su descomunal talento. Fue un detalle por parte de Kevin Morby que te homenajeara. De hecho, Morby es uno de los portadores de tu increíble legado.
i could write more than a few comments on how incredible, amazing and beatiful this is. But they just leave me speechless every time. I'm watching this for the "i-stopped-counting" 'th time.... i love it
These men created one of the most beautiful songs of of modern rock. Britney Spears may have achieved her 15 minutes of fame and gotten rich, but these men have gained legend status.
Chris Procope aww!so broken you wrote braeks! lysdexic(dyslexic!) breaks my heart too:so many amazing artists are true genius & madness!Safety in numbers ?To know it's ok I'm a crazy gypsy::::....
Chris Procope This is 1of 'THE' songs- remember 1st time u 'listen' (98/ATL) & can always 'listen'! (do u know:'I am Kloot' album w/ 'Storm Warning' ?)
have a line from a german alternative pop group, cause my haert also broek... "die verletzten sollen die ärzte sein" - the broken ones shall be the healers/doctors (from wir sind helden - the geek)
i very much enjoy the smoking, and the nonchalance of the backing band. it's kind of stylish. but it doesn't make the music sound better. that's the only problem.
If you aren't old enough to remember a time before these camera smartphones and how recordings used to be then it's not your position to try and put someone down for no reason...
