Should We Have Our Photo Taken?
Meanwhile, via Bedazzled, as potent a defensio of indie rock as there's ever been: the Verlaines' "Death and the Maiden," here augmented by cuddly bunnies. The bassline, the lyrics, the haircuts, the recovering sneer. There've been instances of a wider gulf between the greatness of a band and the acclaim with which it met, to be sure. Just not many, and few so glaringly obvious.
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Still from the Verlaines 'Death and the Maiden' video, 1983
This is a song a heard on the radio in high school (it came out when I was thirteen in 1983, but KALX went through a big NZ phase in the mid eighties, so it was probably '85ish) but could not id [Read More]