Friday 3 August 2007

Perhaps Now The Vultures

Taken from "Vampire On Titus" 1993

"Shot down from the rafters and off to everafter
Consider this a failure, so be it--urchin promise
The curse is working--the trail of bodies
That leaves no suspect, what did you expect?
And get it, get it here, get it now
The news is not worthy
Don't even look
You're cornered into thinking
Invited to the lynching
Specify instructions
I'll shoot the arrow straight up
I'll frame your holy mugshot
Add insult to buckshot
And then I'll drink with glycerol frog-eye
Yeah, she can tell you every detail"

Is "Vampire on Titus" or "Propeller" or "Bee Thousand" considered the Guided By Voices breakthrough album? This song is very lo-fi and all the melody, lyrics and instrumentation is lost in a fizzy mess. You can just about work out a song fighting to get out but must admit this isn't a favourite of mine.

1 comment:

Trentus said...

I thunk this is one of the stand out tracks on Vampire On Titus. Incredibly catchy guitar line.