Monday 12 July 2010

Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage


This song takes me back to the basement of a socialist hostel in Amsterdam. It was the late 90's, and blonde-haired and ruddy-cheeked kids were protesting in the streets. "Nej til NATOs Krieg!" their placards read. Yossarian and I sat in that basement for long hours, minds clouded by the spring air and tall green cans of goodness. It being a socialist commune in Amsterdam, the table holding up the tapedeck was inevitably cluttered with Portugese socialist techno. God, it'd be hard to find a shittier sub-genre of music than Portugese socialist techno from the late-90's. A few minutes of urgent digging through tapes (tapes=an archaic vessel) unearthed a gem - 'Stan Rogers - Live Between the Breaks'. Oh boy, we listened to that tape endlessly.
It was on this same trip that I foolishly allowed Yossarian to borrow my bar of blue Lever 2000 soap. I should have mentioned, Joey is of the ginger-haired persuasion. Anyways, I find the soap sitting in my room a bit later, completely smothered in orange pubic hair. After beating his ass unmerciful, I threw the soap out, because, and I self-quote: "Soap is supposed to wash you, you're not supposed wash IT!"
Anyhow, what an awesome song. You raise Cain, Stan!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

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