Another Knife
Bobby O's fingers seem to be all over ARAWA's Halloween celebration this year. One-Two-Three's 1983 track featuring Tony Caso (of Waterfront Home) is one of my Bobby O favorites, simultaneously off and creepy while being over the top and tongue in cheek at the same time. Kinda like most of my favorite horror movies I guess. The video up there really captures the vibe perfectly, a blurry corpse lain under a white sheet, piano key ties, pink mini-blinds and cold, cold stares.
"Say I was the only one,
say it say it,
let me hear it from the whores mouth."
Youch.
One-Two-Three- Another Knife in My Back
3 comments:
Tongue-in-cheek? I don't know. Seems like an earnest, though failed attempt at the avant-garde to me. I'm pretty sure that song came from a very personal and bitter place in someone's heart and the high-art retelling of that betrayal was taken very seriously - which makes it all the more entertaining.
Thanks!
I wish Bobby O's fingers were all over me. Man, thank you Arawa. Long live the Bobby O!
I feel like some cheap comment whore..having splurged words over the last post..could not pass by without agreeing with the magnificence of this Bobby O classic...the lyrics are sublime...on par with Claudio Simonetti's Fear single...(you know the one 'scaredy cat...scaredy cat'..the whole gestalt of this tune is sleaze to the Nth degree...we love it..
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