i'm sure i've put at least one of these in this or the old CT thread at some point, but the hold steady always deserve the attention.
this first one has one of my favorite opening lyrics to any song:
they got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things,
said i'm pretty sure we've heard this one before,
don't it end up in some revelation with four guys on horses and violent red visions,
famine and death and pestilence and war,
i'm pretty sure i heard this one before
and then later another of my favorite lines in the same song:
i guess i heard about original sin,
i heard the dude blamed the chick,
i heard the chick blamed the snake,
i heard they were naked when they got busted
and i heard things ain't been the same since
and then one of the best closing tracks ever and with such a sick riff:
and my current "on repeat" track, the closer from their first album:
and another one with one of my favorite lyrics:
the devil and john berryman they took a walk together
and they ended up on washington talking to the river
he said, "i've surrounded myself with doctors and deep thinkers
their big heads and soft bodies make for lousy lovers"
there was that night that we thought john berryman could fly,
but he didn't so he died,
she said, "you're pretty good with words, but words won't save your life,"
and they didn't, so he died
