chirst's indie rock cocoon - 'homeboy' by adorable (1992)

as an angsty seventeen year old i was (and still very much am) a consummate sucker for the poignant and beautiful and somewhat painful lyrics of songs like this

like the wont of most shoegazing bands of the time, adorable have chosen to endow the latter third of this song with chunky chunky guitars, causing a wonderful writhing of exquisite and thick noise overladen with wrenching raw vocals, held together with strong drums

sigh. roll around in it for a while - it's pretty awesome

i used to listen to this on vinyl, and the true deliciousness of the audio quality of good vinyl on an excellent system is palpable. i'd listen to it over and over, and wish that someone would say "you're so beautiful, you're so beautiful" to me (is this why i fall for it time and again of late? is it?)

i wasn't so sure about the "i wanna cut you up, i wanna watch you bleed, ever so slowly" part, though. he sings it so invitingly, but for sure i think it would hurt, and i do like my blood to stay on the inside of me

at the time i had a boyfriend who could quickly pick up the riffs to most of the indie rock cocoon we were listening to at the time - it was very cool and very entertaining to have someone on hand who could play ride's 'vapour trail' (look out for this on a later cocoon, i think) or the verlaines' 'joed out'. it was like my own personal request show - "all indie, all the time!" "no, sing 'joed out' in the ron perlman voice!" "now sing it in burps!" - hey, i didn't purport to be the most matureseventeen year old, nor the least demanding teenage creature ever

i must say, it was quite the happy moment when i stumbled across this - i'd long forgotten about adorable. but as soon as i started listening it did that tricky "pick you up chirsty, whisk you to 1992 with us, stay a while, it's nice" magicky thing

ok, adorable. might just make myself a cup of tea and stay here for a while. cheers