Song Of the Day: October 2, 2005
The Walkabouts - Goodbye To All That
From the LP Cataract, Sub Pop Records, 1989
From the LP Cataract, Sub Pop Records, 1989
I was going to say something about the underrated Walkabouts, but then I looked at my shelf and saw that I only have a two of their 37 or so albums, so apparently I'm as guilty as anybody. Cataract is a fantastic LP, updating traditional folk changes and topics and then pushing them through overdriven amps, but "Goodbye..." stands out by revving the speed of their open-chord flailing to near-Feelies levels. I saw them at the Bottleneck during the Early Sub Pop years, and they were as likeable in their "aw-shucks" between song patter as they were ferocious in tearing into the next song. Wonderful.
3 Comments:
Jon - are you absolutely sure you had your turntable speed set correctly? That can't be the guy's voice, can it?
That is the voice of other guitarist/vocalist/cellist etc. Carla Torgerson.
Jon
I have a real soft spot for this era of the Walkabouts. They are still doing well abroad, which is nice to know. They only played in Seattle 3 times or so in the 4 years I lived there - it's much more worth it for them to play in say, Prague.
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