Friday, March 16, 2007







Grizzly Bear: On a neck, On a spit [2006]


The first 15 seconds casualy waltz in without much fanfare, like a kid that hides behind his bangs when entering a room; but once the slide guitar creeps in and the song stretches out, well, "you can't go home again, each time it's different." I tried to write what to visually expect at the 1:15 mark and 2:04, but decided to forgo the thunderclouds and rain. I'm gonna pack my bags and live the rest of the month within this song.

6 comments:

Mike said...

Good call. This album feels like the "Funeral" or "OK Computer" of 2006, in that it is the album I think I will always be able to go back to and find something new. Did you see the video for "The Knife"? Stereogum premiered it, but I can't access it on their site right now. There's a smaller (size of the screen) version of it here. http://www.blender.com/video/981/GrizzlyBearKnife.video

Something new.

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

check out a great live version of this song at scheduletwo.com

Anonymous said...

Big B, was the post deleted entirely or just the comment ? I'd been listening to Grizzly Bear's cover of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" recently, and after you're fanfare of an intro i was keen (to put it mildly) to listen to this one.

No kidding, that was some build-up. Poetry, i can relate to.

Every time i try to hit the link, though, i can't connect to the server. Hope it's just a temporary glitch.

Anonymous said...

Got onto the server, finally, Big B, and it was worth the wait.

Nothing i can say about this could possibly match your intro, but i need to listen to it a few more times.

Great stuff, and it's encoded at 192kbs too !! Thanks.

Big B said...

thanks for yer patience ib. this song is cinematic.