Monday , November 16, 2009

We're Obsessed: "Deathbed Confession" by Chain and The Gang

One time when I was drunk last Saturday I sent a Twitter text saying, "If yr obsessed w/ something as a joke, pretty soon you'll prolly be obsessed for real. that's why ian svenonious is the same as brody jenner." Really abstruse stuff there, but I think I still get it now that I'm sober. The deal is that for about 12 hours this weekend I got a big kick out of thinking Ian Svenonious's band Chain and The Gang is stupid: I saw them on Friday and their set was halfway killer but the room was way too hot and I kind of hated everything - mostly because the whole scene/sound felt like something out of 1998, and I'm really not much of a fan of 1998. (In general, the late '90s should all just go die - what a bullshit moment in rock history.) Then, after my third or fourth listen of "Deathbed Confession," I stopped feeling all proud of myself for mildly disliking Chain and The Gang and started loving the song so much that I had to just keep playing it over and over and over till I got every word catalogued in my steel trap of a brain. It's not a perfect song but it's so groovy and creepy and goofball all at once, and I love the way Ian rhymes ("I killed MLK, for the C.I.A./And Malcolm X, for Federal Express," "I faked the moon landing, I saved Hitler's brain/It's in Argentina, but it controls the U.S.A."). I want you to have "Deathbed Confession" so bad, in fact, I'm gonna give you three different ways to hear it:

1. Watch this video from some show in Kentucky:

2. Click on the magical jukebox:

3. Download the mp3 at The Decibel Tolls blog.

You might also want to watch Stephen Malkmus on "Soft Focus with Ian Svenonious", if you're not taking off for a backyard barbecue anytime soon or something. Happy Memorial Day!

P.S. I should probably clarify that I like Chain and The Gang way more than I like Brody Jenner, whom I've recently upgraded to "moderately inoffensive" due to his looking almost slightly attractive for five seconds on the Hawaii episode of The Hills.

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amazing! should be sung in our schools..instead of the pledge

By crystal on May 25, 2009 11:55 PM

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