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Things I Listened to This Weekend: Number Six of Six: The Mekons — “Where Were You?”
Just to finish this YouTube run off on a high and weighty note, here is one remarkable single from 1978, about which there is not a ton that wants explaining or decoding: it seems to blurt out a simple feeling with great passion and then just stop.
I can imagine someone saying it’s stalkery, actually. I don’t know if it really gives us enough information to be firm either way, and somehow it sounds too ardent and self-righteous for me to think of it as creepy in that particular way — but I can see how someone might.
And maybe that’s the thing. I’m always taken with the way the bass rumbles and blurts, just like the song does — the way it’s all reckless and too forthright and not sensibly in control of its feelings. So maybe that’s exactly the thing, or exactly the reason I feel pleasantly exhausted after listening to it.
A great, great, great record. Also the source of the riff from Boredoms’ “Super Roots 7”!
