Posted by doubter on Thursday, February 24th, 2011
american wheezehoarse // as far as i am concern one of the most badass songs ever laid to tape. this is a live version, but the song also appears in studio form on 1996′s sackcloth n’ ashes. if i were to pick up one 16 horsepower record it would be hoarse, and even though its live it has quite a few of their best songs.
American Wheeze was the first 16 Horepower song I heard, and still possibly their best. If I had to pick one 16 Horsepower album…that’s almost undoable. Maybe Sackcloth ‘n Ashes (wich has the definitive version of American Wheeze), but Low Estate is also great (especially the first released version, with Dead Run on it). Then again, Hoarse has a beautiful song on it called ‘South Pennsylvanian Waltz’, wich is also on Olden, wich is also pretty great…
I saw 16 Horspower live three times, and the third concert was the only one where they played American Wheeze. All three concerts were great, all very intense.
In april I’ll go and see Woven Hand; looking forward to it already.
Favorite tracks are Brimstone Rock and Fire Spirit (I love all that hollerin’!), but Hoarse is great from beginning to end. It’s one of only a handful of albums that I play all the way through. The VPRO Studio set that you posted here was my intro to them. That Nobody ‘Cept You cover–good LORD.
shit, i had totally forgot about this up until about an hour ago. its the new hip shakin and ass kickin ep,on the lam, from them damn canadians, lions in the street. if i had a list of bands that i wished put out more stuff, lions in the street would be damn near the [...]
happy memorial day weekend, americans! to everyone else, hey its still the weekend, right? either way, i have been so damn busy with work the past few weeks, i have nary the time/energy to put forth here. kind of sad, but i guess it beats having too much time aka not having a fucking job. [...]
been following these chaps on twitter for seemingly years now, and have never seen them, for whatever reason. anyway, tonight, hopefully that all will change. new orleans’ the breton sound is who i am talking about if you havent figured that out. they recently released a new ep entitled maps, and its great. admittedly, even [...]
American Wheeze was the first 16 Horepower song I heard, and still possibly their best. If I had to pick one 16 Horsepower album…that’s almost undoable. Maybe Sackcloth ‘n Ashes (wich has the definitive version of American Wheeze), but Low Estate is also great (especially the first released version, with Dead Run on it). Then again, Hoarse has a beautiful song on it called ‘South Pennsylvanian Waltz’, wich is also on Olden, wich is also pretty great…
I saw 16 Horspower live three times, and the third concert was the only one where they played American Wheeze. All three concerts were great, all very intense.
In april I’ll go and see Woven Hand; looking forward to it already.
Favorite tracks are Brimstone Rock and Fire Spirit (I love all that hollerin’!), but Hoarse is great from beginning to end. It’s one of only a handful of albums that I play all the way through. The VPRO Studio set that you posted here was my intro to them. That Nobody ‘Cept You cover–good LORD.