Working Full-Time - Constantines
From Tournament of Hearts (2005)
Sometimes it takes just one little musical element to push a song over the dividing line between really good and truly great. In this song, it comes at 1:50.
These guys are seriously underrated, and put on a hell of a live show.
Shot Down - The Sonics
From Boom (1966)
If you don't know the Sonics, they're one of those bands who vie in the hearts of critics for that ever esteemed and pointless title of First Punk Band (along with the MC5, the Who, the Stooges, et al.). To my ears, they pretty much sound like the Who if the Who 1. were from Seattle, 2. were slightly worse musicians, and 3. only wrote songs like The Ox. This still adds up to pretty god damn ruthless. There's no question in my mind that in 1965, this band was the hardest rocking group in America.
This song has some serious heft, and it throws itself around liberally. The machine-gun-fire drum fill in this song is so, so satisfying.
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