Street Sweeper Social Club: Boots Riley & Tom Morello Get Together and Make Us Miss Their Old Bands
Posted by thefarmerjones on June 19, 2009
New music for a Friday afternoon, courtesy of the Boots Riley/Tom Morello collabo Street Sweeper Social Club:
It’s not bad, I guess, but I feel like both these guys have done roughly the same thing already, separately and in other groups, and that it was fresher and newer and better when they were doing it previously than it is now.
If I could boil these feelings down to their essence, I think I’d say: Boots, bring back Pam the Funkstress, please.
And: Tom, playing your guitar like a turntable somehow seemed much cooler 15 years ago.
Also, the fat kid at 4:57 = greatest 3/4 of a second in American music video history. Don’t try to argue.
Enjoy your weekend, and rest well in the knowledge that the power is still being fought. It just doesn’t sound quite as cool as it used to.
Like this:
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Izzo said
The only redeemable thing about Audioslave was Tom on guitar.I wish he’d go ‘Killing in the Name of’ apeshit more often,I’d even settle for ‘Cochise’,him playing Flamenco guitar when he was a solo act was the last straw,so I don’t really have high hopes for this project.Plus I never really listened to the Coup.
I can live in hope for another RATM album,I mean if Manic Street Preachers can still churn out have decent albums,I can’t see why RATM can’t.