Just about two weeks til our best 666 songs of alltime countdown reaches #1…and then we start with the 1000 best albums of alltime. Wednesday’s song is #15:
Phil Ochs – Doesn’t Lenny Live Here Anymore
While the Lenny of the title was inspired by the great Lenny Bruce, this isn’t exactly a funny song. As Lincoln Mayorga’s organ weaves around, Ochs paints an unforgettably seedy tableau where a “haggard ex-lover of a longtime loser” searches for him in vain. At the end, in an evocation of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots, “the shoulders charge, the boards of the barricade are splintered,” but it’s too late. From Rehearsals for Retirement, 1969.
July 14, 2010
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The best 666 songs of alltime countdown continues every day, all the way to #1. Saturday’s song is #54:
Joy Division – Heart & Soul
By the time this hypnotic, swirling dirge opens side two of Closer, it’s obvious how badly everything is going to end: without a doubt, it’s the suicide album to end all suicide albums. “Heart and soul, one will burn.”
June 5, 2010
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The best 666 songs of alltime countdown continues every day, all the way to #1. Friday’s song is #139:
Barclay James Harvest – Suicide
The poor man’s Moody Blues’ best song. The big epic is a mystery with a trick ending – when the guy gets out of the elevator on the top floor, does he or doesn’t he? We won’t give it away. Decide for yourself. From the Octoberon album, 1976.
March 12, 2010
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The best 666 songs of alltime countdown continues every day, all the way to #1. Thursday’s song is #161:
String Driven Thing – Suicide
Just so you know, we deleted Decades by Joy Division to make room for this somewhat more direct, fiery blues-rock song by the cult band responsible for the 1972 The Machine That Cried album. This one’s from the band’s 1992 Live in Manchester reunion tour cd, a bitter rocker’s graveside tableau:
The T in contract
The I in impasse
The M in muzak
The E in Ex-lax
The S in suicide
The long, Dave Swarbrick style violin solo winds this up ferociously.
February 18, 2010
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