TITLE: "Thorn of Crowns"
ARTIST: Echo & the Bunnymen
ALBUM: Ocean Rain
RELEASE DATE: 1984
It was a horrible day outside yesterday. The snowfall that started after midnight turned into a hateful combination of rain and frozen ice. As such, myself, the wife and the little kids were cooped up in our apartment, which is always a recipe for blood-splattered disaster. When we could no longer tolerate the shrill punishments of hearing "Dora the Explorer" and "Go, Diego, Go" bleating out of our television like a piercing dog whistle, Peggy (the wife) turned on this insipid children's album (Humpty Who?....seek it out and snap it in half when you find it, and then strike the person who sold it to you in the gums with a hammer). This almost made Daddy want to sprint for the liquor cabinet to ease the pain, but that wasn't really on the menu.
In any case, when that forty-five minutes of abject, soul-immolating horror ended, I immediately fired up my iTunes and the first song to come blossoming out of the speakers like a vulgarly pulchritudinous sonic flower of feral neo-psychedelia was "Thorn of Crowns" by Echo & the Bunnymen - SALVATION! Being as punchdrunk (or, as my lovely British wife says, "woodsqueer"), as I was, I couldn't stop myself from jumping up and frugging as if the very stability of the space/time continuum depended on it - especially when Ian lets out those "Yea-KICK IT!"s. To my pleasant surprise, both of my kids started dancing along (Charlotte, age 3 and Oliver, age 1), and our living room was transformed into a rocking post-punk disco with less laughable hair
This song rocks, and the world is a better place because of it.
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