I downloaded a few Pedro albums years ago but I can't honestly say I've ever actually gotten into any of them. Will listen to Control in a few minutes.
Winners Never Quit and Achilles Heel deserve so much more love. They each get better with every listen.
took me forever to even listen to control because everything else was so good. glad i finally did though.
Achilles' Heel is my favorite. Control is amazing, but it's almost too bleak for me to listen to a lot, haha. It's incredibly cynical in a way the rest of Bazan's discography following it isn't.
if you haven't already, listen to this ep. was actually the album that intro'd me to bazan. incredible and FUCKING RELEVANT Calling all rednecks to put down their sluggers And turn their attention from beating the buggers To pick up machine guns and kill camel fuckers Backwoods nation Calling the doctors of spin and the smoke screen To whip the new hate-triots into a frenzy Of good versus evil ignoring the history of the Backwoods nation Ain’t it a shame When due process Stands in the way Of swift justice Calling all frat boys to trade in their hazing Their keggers and cocaine And casual date raping For cabinet appointments And rose garden tapings Backwoods, backwoods, backwoods, nation
It seems I'm in the minority here, but I really don't like the direction the Monthly/Blanco stuff went. At all. Love PTL, love Bazan, kinda can't stand this.
I never heard it as it was released monthly. Just as the album. And it's easily my favourite thing he's done.
Excited for that, I'll listen to the song later but he's def one of my favorite songwriters so I'm confident in this