sea of cortez

who in the hell needs six versions of neil young's epic anti-colonial axe-monster 'cortez the killer', good, bad and indifferent? a galactic mystery to which no solution is provided here. but, like herpes and blogging, there's a lot of it about. maybe r. kelly and lil' wayne will get up on the remix.

wikipedia is particularly good on this song, describing how in singing about the aztecs, neil young "explicitly acknowledges, before and after some guitar work, both human sacrifice and the immense human toll of building their pyramids". such things come easily before and after some guitar work.

neil young - 'cortez the killer' original!

built to spill - 'cortez the killer' indie!

marissa nadler - 'cortez the killer' ethereal!

slint - 'cortez the killer' unexpected!

sunroof - 'cortez the killer' instruMENTAL!

dave matthews band and warren haynes - 'cortez the killer' masculine!

more fun:

buy zuma by neil young
buy live by built to spill
buy slint
slint live in kentucky
buy marissa nadler
buy sunroof
buy dave matthews

the louisville sluggers

the slint-curated all tomorrow's parties festival a couple of years back was one of the best ever - part of the reason being that slint invited all their mates, meaning every bar band and supergroup in louisville, kentucky turned up. quite a scene you got there, man.

here's the latest lousiville supergroup, dead child featuring dave pajo, members of anomoanon, shipping news and the for carnation, brian macmahon's brother and a bloke called dahm. best of all, they sound like iron maiden. awesome.

dead child - 'angel of the odd' (live)

and here are the mighty slint, live in kentucky last year:

slint - 'good morning, captain' (live)

more fun:

slint homepage

dead child homepage

full live sets here

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