Morphine - The Night
Listening to and discussing Bill Callahan's "Riding for the Feeling" (the video is perfectly matched with the song) with friends has made me go back to other hushed, late-night, lonely-as-fuck-sounding songs, and Morphine's "The Night" is definitely one of those, it might even represent the highest form of that type of song. When I listen to this, I feel like I could fall into it or get trapped within it in a bad way, as if listening to this song could pull me into self-pitying lassitude, or an inescapable daydreaming satisfaction. Like the Odyssean episode of the Lotus Eaters, but staged in a dark bar rather than on a bright island. This is a seriously good song. Put this on when you want to become the character in Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" (I'll learn to work the saxophone/I'll play just what I feel/Drink Scotch whiskey all night long/And die behind the wheel).Morphosis - SpiralYou never know what you're going to get when you walk through the front door at the end of the day and see your wife: will it be the martini or the rolling pin? If you're late, it depends, it could be either. If you're really late, it'll be the pin. If you bring flowers, it's the martini. Somehow she knows--there is a mechanism akin to the way a dog knows when its owner is coming home, though you would never say this out loud, obviously, to your wife, and compare her to a dog. You're not stupid. Though there is some occult, possibly extrasensory, perception going on. Every night when you grasp the door, you get a little jolt. It's not the knob that's electrified. It's just you. A jolty kiss. Your mouth waters, in anticipation of gin or pain. Either way, your head will hurt like mad in the morning.[Buy Morphine's The Night][Buy Morphosis's What Have We Learned]