Sunday, February 28, 2010

"Frankie Teardrop" spooky song

"Frankie Teardrop is a song by synthpunk duo Suicide from their debut album “Suicide” released in 1977. The song tells the story about man who kills his own family and finally himself. The song was sung by Alan Vega." -internet

"...it is a ten-minute descent into the soul-crushing existence of a young factory worker, [the song's] tense, repetitive rhythms and Vega’s deadpan delivery and horrifying, almost inhuman screams make the song more literally and poetically political than the work of bands who wore their radical philosophies on their sleeves." -All-Music Guide

I find this thing to be curiously moving. Even scary. So, just for fun, see how much of this "song" you can take. Think of it as an endurance test. Let me know how far you get.



"Alan Vega" (real name: Boruch Alan Bermowitz)

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