Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Do You Wanna Get Heavy?

ORIGINATION Acme
LAST LISTENED TO sunday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT probably quite goood considering
RATING

It's them again. They seem to have been hanging around in my head a lot the past few days. Today was no exception, other than there was more or less two songs in my head at once. Both this song and Magical Colors, the one preceding it on the cd were mixed up in there, but this song won out eventually.

As with every other JSBX song, it's the old two-guitar retro-ish rock 'n' roll. The differing ingredients in this track are some nice supporting organ and a whole load of soul in the second half. In fact it's this second half that really make the tune. There is some excellent vocal interplay along with the chants of "Do you wanna get heavy" and the delicate organ is reminiscent of the organ that played behind Al Green in some of his best moments. A bit of a change of pace for these guys, but still excellent.

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