Having said I’m not really into grim, depressing TV (Adolescence), I’m really loving the grim, depressing lyrics of ex-junkie Jason Isbell, who I discovered from Rolling Stone’s list of all-time greatest albums.
For example:
If we were vampires and death was a joke
We’d go out on the sidewalk and smoke
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
I wouldn’t feel the need to hold your hand
Maybe time running out is a gift
I’ll work hard 'til the end of my shift
And give you every second I can find
And hope it isn’t me who’s left behind
It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we’ll get forty years together
But one day I’ll be gone or one day you’ll be gone
Southeastern is a great album.
Also try Weathervanes. Two songs in particular stand out
Strawberry Woman is just great (“There’s a warm wind blowing through the laundromat/There’s a young man crying in a cowboy hat…”)
King of Oklahoma is a brilliant song about a man who has an accident on a building site while taking a piss from the top of a 20-foot ladder, gets hooked on painkillers, is unable to work and then becomes a crap petty criminal to try to pay for his drugs.
One of these from around 1991/2 will have my letter read out. I think it was a wedding present comp and i tried to sway john with a bribe of 1 1/2p and an action photo of a sheep.
Was listening to this the other day. So good. Sully’s been putting out next level stuff for years now. Used to play a lot of his garagey stuff when I was still DJing.
