I posted Cheap Trick yesterday and now I post another Chicago favorite of mine Big Black and their cover of He’s A Whore.
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It’s odd that two of my all-time favorite Big Black songs (the other being Bad Houses) are their most restrained. I got into this band for the guitar noise (and misogynistic lyrics, I love misogyny!) yet these “softer” songs keep drawing me back in the most. Both songs have an oppressively bleak and creepy atmosphere […]
OK, so this is an anti-Texas song, but hey, it’s Big Black. Steve Albini doesn’t like anything or anybody. Not sure about chain gangs, but I’m sure I’ll see lots of mustaches, rednecks and wetbacks.
OK, enough with the gentle stuff. Here is a blast of noise from Steve Albini’s best band Big Black. Somehow I always pictured Flannery O’Connor would have written things like this had she been born 30 years later and grew up in Montana. It’s hard not to smile at these lyrics, the images are so […]
