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GSOATOTW #3
So, how about something from this century? Easy enough. For those of you new to our Greatest Song of All Time of the Week feature, dig right in, this one is only a little over nine minutes long, no big deal. Enjoy the bizzaro-world-yet-enlightening lyrics, enjoy the snare drum ringing out like small arms fire, enjoy Dan Bejar’s bratty kid voice (that somehow manages to sound wiser than the prophets) while it effortlessly drops my favorite line from this century or last:
The sketchy crowd shows me drawings, they’re alright
An alternately dim and frightful waste
Now come on honey let’s go outside
You disrupt the world’s disorder just by virtue of your grace
Lyrics that great can actually be found all over Destroyer’s catalog, but this song’s emotion and urgency sets Bejar’s words into sharp relief against the roiling musical backdrop. The nine-plus minute run time simply evaporates.
GSOATOTW #2
Today’s challenge is a simple one: Find a song, any song, that accomplishes more with four chords than this one does. I’m not saying it hasn’t been done. I’m just saying that if it has, I want to know about it.
The Greatest Song of All Time of the Week #1
Time for an exciting new feature here at Project Dimmel: The Greatest Song of All Time of the Week. As the title may have led you to believe, this will be a recurring feature wherein at the top of each week I post the Greatest Song of All Time. When fitting, this will be new material that perfectly captures the cultural zeitgeist, but more often than not this will just be whatever scratches me where I happen to itch.
Rest assured all songs featured in The Greatest Song of All Time of the Week have been curated and approved by the Project Dimmel Cultural Committee (the same people that brought you mandatory sentencing for anyone caught wearing sunglasses with a backwards ball cap) and come with the Project Dimmel Diamond Guarantee: Inclusion of any of one of these songs in your music collection offsets at least 5 of the questionable songs in your collection. Say your current collection is a little long on Maroon 5, that’s ok. No need to delete ‘em. Just be sure to lawfully download each week’s Greatest Song of All Time of the Week and by year’s end you will have completely redressed your iPod’s content issues. Heavy into OKGO? That’s cool, no one’s on trial here, but you might want to check back each week and at least give the Greatest Song of All Time a listen or two. Why, if you added them all, you could totally offset having OKGO’s shameful New Order ripoffs in heavy rotation. Counting Crows completist? Jesus, I don’t know what to do in your case, but I don’t think I can help.
For our inaugural GSOATOTW post, we picked an easy one: Web In Front by Archers of Loaf. This one is pretty hard to argue with. The lead track off the band’s debut is punchy, angular, messy, passionate and utterly flawless. In it’s brief 2 minute run time, Web in Front captures the nineties mix of anxiety, tension and longing more perfectly than the entire catalogs of their grunge contemporaries combined. One can easily imagine Black Hole Sun and Smell’s Like Teen Spirit appearing on K-Tel’s “Grooving to the 90’s” Collection 10 years hence, but they’ll fail to include Web in Front and it’s a shame. Archers of Loaf certainly have a dedicated fan base, but this is a perfect song that deserves a much wider audience.
Whether this is new to you or if this is just one that got lost in the wash, enjoy!
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