Tell the toffs who wrecked the earth to recognize your actual worth
I might not make it out alive so it’s down to you rise upĪnd smash the garbage system that led millions to their graves Grimm picks up the pace with a rare love song, Friney’s Song, and follows that with the simmering, Celtic-tinged anthem So Long, Good Luck and Fuck You: We don’t need a monument to that kind of man There’s malice in his heart and there’s blood on his hands He rips children from their mothers while they’re sleepin in their beds He vows to build a wall and paint the country red Monument, a slow, seething number with organ behind the guitars, doesn’t namecheck Trump, but it doesn’t have to: He reminds that a Nazi by any other name is still a Nazi in Nazis Agree With You, a perennially relevant broadside which also contains the album’s best musical joke. In Be Saffiyah Khan, Grimm sends a shout-out to the woman who stared down a crowd of anti-Muslim bigots – and won. It’s Grimm at his most cynically amusing: “Venture unto roads less traveled, unless you’re in the South.” Likewise, Reply Guy (The Dick Next Door) could be the Hangdogs in one of their janglier moments, a ruthlessly detailed portrait of a rightwing nut with an especially twisted secret – which turns out to be less than a secret after all. Social D, Marcuse, Del Fuegos, Dewey, threads that wove what we becameĪspire is more acoustic, with one of those Texas shuffle grooves the Hangdogs loved so much. Niebuhr, Gramsci, Scruffy the Cat, Hobsbawm, Wiesel, the Mats We spin it again and again like it turned some secret key in ou restless brains Compare your freshman reading and playlist to this one:ġ986, Songs From the Film, JP finds it in the cut-out bin Much as it seems Grimm could already see the fascism that was coming down the pike, there’s an indominable joie de vivre here too. Tommy Keene Is Playing Kiki’s House, the album’s title track more or less, is a bittersweet look back at college life during the Reagan era. Not quite everything here is quite as, well, grim. We’ll greenlight genocide long as some charlatan We gathered in the square to watch Black men hang Lined up to die for rich men’s right to own people, We’re the peasants who cheered as heretics burned, It’s Grimm’s What’s the Matter with Kansas:
He opens with Salt of the Earth, which could be Steve Earle fronting Social Distortion. Grimm’s new album Dumpster-Fire Days – streaming at Spotify – is his hardest-rocking and arguably most witheringly lyrical album in a long and incendiary career. That band’s 2002 release Wallace ’48 was rated best album of the year by this blog’s e-zine predecessor. But as is usually the case with Grimm, there are many other levels at work here, one of them debunking the myth of how close-knit Midwestern communities actually are.īefore Grimm went solo, he fronted a raucously twangy, ferociously populist New York Americana-punk-janglerock band, the Hangdogs. On the surface, it’s a clear-eyed, unsentimental account of a Wisconsin man, David Carter, whose dead body went undiscovered for four years after he’d shot himself in his own home. Matthew Grimm‘s song West Allis topped the Best Songs of the Year list here in 2013.
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