06.01.11

Happy Music for the Great Decline

Posted in Rock 'n' Roll at 6:58 am by George Smith

“Happy days, the party never ends, here’s to all us alcholics, another round for my friends.” — Jesus H. Christ

Alcoholics In My Town, the new video from old acquaintances from music journalism-ing, Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse. It’s a fine song made better through a video directed by some well-known guy, Dan Minehan of HBO’s Game of Thrones.

I’m usually inclined to say more but the press release says it best:

“Let’s party like we’ll never get old,??? the message seems to be, “And then let’s run our van into a guardrail on the way home and become paralyzed from the waist down and not have health insurance.???

The band wanted to write a song that celebrated small town life, in the vein of John Cougar Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen: songs about the people they grew up with: the good times and the good buddies.

But, growing up in small towns, they knew, from personal experience, that most of these Good-Time-Charlies-and-Charlenes were usually alcoholics. The band doesn’t condemn, our exclude themselves, from this state of affairs- they just wanted to be medically accurate.

Still puts a tear in my eye.

So click it up and pass it around so they don’t have to buy views and risk getting banned by the YouTube police.

“Jesus H Christ will play their Philadelphia debut on Friday, June 10 at 8:30 PM, at The Farmers’ Cabinet at 1113 Walnut Street, Philadelphia in celebration of Philadelphia Beer Week with a beer tasting by band members/ beer importers The Shelton Brothers,” adds the release.

And I would certainly go if I lived in Philly. So you should if you do.

What, you don’t like beer? That’s really un-American.

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Originally, on the band’s debut at the Village Voice.

Their website.

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