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[sovay]

I was so transfixed by the Bittersweets' "Hurtin' Kind" (1967) that I sat in the car in front of my house listening until it was done. The 1965 original is solid, stoner-flavored garage rock with its keyboard stomp and harmonica wail, but the all-female cover has that guitar line like a Shepard tone, the ghostly descant in the vocals, the singer's voice falling off at the end of every verse: it sounds like an out-of-body experience of heartbreak. The outro comes on like a prelude to Patti Smith.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard two songs about mental unwellness within the same couple of hours, actually I'd be swimming in nickels, but I appreciated the contrast of the slow-rolling dread-flashover of Doechii's "Anxiety" (2025) with Marmozets' "Major System Error" (2017) just crashing in at gale force panic attack. Hat-tip to rushthatspeaks for the former. I must say that I am missing my extinct music blogs much less now that I spend so much time in the car with college radio on.

"Who'll Stand with Us?" (2025) is the most Billy Bragg-like song I have heard from the Dropkick Murphys and a little horrifically timely.

Non-musically, I think I might explode. The curse tablets are not cutting it.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

Fascinated by the way “Anxiety” uses the bassline (?) from “Somebody That I Used to Know” and the video points it up by not only quoting the original video (the two people on body paint) but CDK’s video (the massed dancers near the end, and their choreography): https://youtu.be/REPPgPcw4hk

[sovay]

Fascinated by the way “Anxiety” uses the bassline (?) from “Somebody That I Used to Know” and the video points it up by not only quoting the original video (the two people on body paint) but CDK’s video (the massed dancers near the end, and their choreography)

Yes! rushthatspeaks sent it to me as an example of a remix and I agree that it fills itself in amazingly around the spine of the other song.