Wednesday, February 9, 2011

SONGS:OHIA untitled #1

in the fall of 2004, i went to a Magnolia Electric Co. show at Sala Rossa in Montréal. I sincerely thought, five minutes after the show had started, that it was meant as a deeply ironic Neil Young tribute (at least in comparison to the Songs:Ohia show i had been at five years before in Brighton, where Molina had been all alone on stage).

it was not, of course. needless to say, i quickly left the show.

on this Western Vinyl 7" - it's the last post with that tag on, one goal achieved... - Molina takes another kind of Youngish path. Less americana, more Dead Man style, he's overtly quoting one guitar riff of the soundtrack.

definitely an essential song in his extensive discography.


listen.



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