play me as you read …
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this song is the last track on the new dexateens album ‘singlewide.’ i listened to this song a dozen times before i realized that david berman – the silverest jew – lends a minimalist guest vocal. brilliant. and anyone who wonders how david berman found the dexateens, you need only hear/read the song’s first line. this one’ll move you, even though the boys are so god damn country they’re hard to understand. but they do more with seventy five percent lyrical comprehension than most do with more …
i like ronnie dio and i like vaseline
i enjoy the feeling feeling of a sharp crease in my jeans
i can see you smiling boy, so here’s a simple question
can you whoop it?
my daddy’s name is elton my momma’s name is jean
my car’s a chevy nova, and my woman’s 17
she moved into my place cause her parents intervene now
can you whoop it?
rocks are for the honest
guns are for the wise
lies are for the frightened
for the blind man and his blinds [?]
i live in the space created by your compromise
so can you whoop it?
saw the dexateens last saturday at chelsea’s. brilliant. loud. brilliant. still mourning the death of oasis, some jesus on the mainline rock and roll was much needed. i got very drunk and had to be cared for. it was one of those nights … yup, one of those nights. i stripped off all my clothes and attempted to play music before an audience. considering i still have pink toenails from the anniversary party at hooch’s, it was very guerrero street circa 1998 around these parts this weekend (in more ways than one …)
still helpless at 11 am sunday …
wanna talk about oasis but … not quite ready. lazy, i am. that’s something i’ll miss about oasis right there. they were a little lazy, too …
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is this a cover of whoop dat trick?
i think the first somethingsomething is intervened yes?
& the second for the blind man and his blinds? tho I am less sure.
you should include Berman’s “yeahs”
‘YES.’
i finally understood “intervened” driving around last night … still fuzzy on the blind man, but so is he, probably.
not a cover, perhaps an homage …
1. Before 2009 lost Oasis, it lost the Joos.
2. How many of “those” nights have your 35 years seen?
3. Open field with a window,
Open field with no child,
Open Field.
at least the joos went out with a purpose. oasis went out in a fist fight one minute before they were supposed to take the stage on the second to last night of a 13 month world tour. it’s like dying of cancer versus getting hit by a train unexpectedly.
the answer to your question … too many