It's the 100th song! I'm a third of the way through The 300!!! Hallelujah!It's interesting to see how these songs line up alphabetically. Sometimes there are some selections that make for a really bizarre combo once they're next to each other. At other times you get these really cool runs, like the "Can't" and "Don't" songs that are just fabulous. This song, "Horrorshow," is great right next to "Holidays in the Sun." You have two legendary English punk bands snarling it out for world domination!
"Horrorshow" was one of the first songs by The Libertines that really hooked me. I still don't remember how I came upon their music... and they probably don't remember recording half of it either! But I digress... so anyhow I heard this song that was wild and fast and seemed dangerously close to imploding before it was able to finish. I thought, "This one is great." There was so much energy in it. Granted, I had no idea what the song was about. Pete Doherty's vocals are regularly a mix of screams, yelps, slurs, and breathy exhales that are difficult to decipher. And the music is so rockin' that I often got lost in it, but I have managed to hear the heroin references in lines like "horse is brown," one of several "brown" comments that work their way into a number of The Libertines songs. I LOVE the second half of the chorus when, after Pete sings "Pin me up or put me.... uh uh uh uh oh!" The great stoppage of the music at that part is fantastic. There are a few places where the tempo shifts down for a while, only to explode again. Great great stuff. This is a really fun song to listen to.
"Horrorshow" is from the album "Up the Bracket." To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.
"Horrorshow" was one of the first songs by The Libertines that really hooked me. I still don't remember how I came upon their music... and they probably don't remember recording half of it either! But I digress... so anyhow I heard this song that was wild and fast and seemed dangerously close to imploding before it was able to finish. I thought, "This one is great." There was so much energy in it. Granted, I had no idea what the song was about. Pete Doherty's vocals are regularly a mix of screams, yelps, slurs, and breathy exhales that are difficult to decipher. And the music is so rockin' that I often got lost in it, but I have managed to hear the heroin references in lines like "horse is brown," one of several "brown" comments that work their way into a number of The Libertines songs. I LOVE the second half of the chorus when, after Pete sings "Pin me up or put me.... uh uh uh uh oh!" The great stoppage of the music at that part is fantastic. There are a few places where the tempo shifts down for a while, only to explode again. Great great stuff. This is a really fun song to listen to.
"Horrorshow" is from the album "Up the Bracket." To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.
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