| Sport Murphy / Uncle |
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| Album: | Uncle | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Sport Murphy | Added: | Feb 2003 | |
| Label: | Kill Rock Stars | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-04-28 | Pull Date: | 2003-06-30 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 15 | Jun 1 | May 25 | May 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 20, 2016: | Waste FM No Fair | 4. | May 21, 2003: | Brownian Motion Bad Guest | |
| 2. | Jun 11, 2003: | the rust belt Everybody's Gone | 5. | May 02, 2003: | the rust belt Bird in the House | |
| 3. | May 31, 2003: | On The Warpath Johnny Lightning | 6. | Apr 30, 2003: | Off the Path Miles Across the Sea |
| Album Review |
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| pat blue ribbon Reviewed 2003-04-29 | ||
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Sport Murphy --- Uncle ---- Kill Rock Stars This is Sport Murphy?s tribute to his nephew/childhood pal who was killed working as a firefighter at the WTC on 9/11/01. This is one of the better responses to the 9/11 I've heard since it deals on such as personal level without hatred or reactionary appeals to patriotism. It makes you think about the thousands of 9/11 survivors not in the public eye, suffering in silence. But it's hopeful - in Sport's words "Hatred is poison; induce vomiting, have a laugh at the enemy and move on." Sport's the former frontman for the folk-punk band the Skels and his music has irish-folk influences as well as the discordancies of Charles Ives, and Tom Waits. The varied songs are sad and heartbreaking and deal with the unfairness and randomness of life and death but not in a overly depressing way -- they reflect and refract pain and loss -- it's surprisingly hopeful and uplifting in the midst of sadness. Some of the songs have great clips of kids (Sport and his nephew) talking with Long Island accents. Best are 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 20, 21 1. good violin/organ/bongos 2. little kid telling a story, short song with flute 3. folky fiddle - sad stories 4. short, discordant trombone - kid's good night 5. irish feel 6. Discortant rant about a bird in the house 8. sad, good violin 9. short kid's song - "Welcome to New Jersey" - great! 10. upbeat 11. drum machine beat 12. short 13. about publicity-seeking survivors 14. short 15. rockin' guitar - hopeful 16. folk/irish violin - "shoo fly shoo" 17. great accordion 18. slow/acoustic guitar 19. slow/violin 20. mid - irish waltz feel 21. sad/piano - tom waits-esque 22. short - flute/accordion | ||
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