brighthue wrote: 
(2) See also Seasick Steve.

 madebytim wrote: 
Too bad for you.

Double "NO" for this and pretty much everything from Morphine. Throw it on the heap.

 madebytim wrote: 
Agree, I hate it, kills their songs. Every one of them.

The sax completely ruins it for me...

Sometimes, this thing is JUST the ticket...can make the blues of the world fade into steamy passion, which implies hope...a good thing!
This one smokes!

 brighthue wrote: 
Wow, brighthue, that's fascinating.  I appreciate Morphine even more now knowing this and I'll listen even more closely to their music.

Dear Bill, Please stop with that crap!
Sincerely yours...

 Delawhere wrote: 
hahaha!
 

Dear Bill, please feel free to play as much Morphine as you want. Thanks !

I like Morphine, but I think I need the real thing after Ani Destinko 

One shot of Morphine a week is about all I can stand.  Too much of this nihilistic music at one sitting and I'd have to slit my throat.

 suebee3 wrote: 
In a good way.  The bottom end of that sax knocks your feet right out.

Love that sax!

just brutal.

 brighthue wrote: 
...not only that but the sax player Dana Colley often was playing more than one type of saxophone at the same time.

 mikedarookie wrote: 
Sandman and Morphine took existing musical elements and made something incredibly stark, deliciously smoky and new. Not to put too fine a point on it but, Sandman played electric bass guitars that were strung and played in unconventional ways. From a Wikipedia entry:

In Morphine, he played primarily a two-string slide bass guitar usually tuned to a fifth, but he also was known to play a unitar (named after the one-stringed instrument in American blues tradition), and three-string slide bass with one bass string and two unison strings tuned an octave higher (usually A). He sometimes paired bass strings with one or two guitar strings, creating the "basitar" "tri-tar" and "guitbass".

mikedarookie wrote:

YES. Thank you. Morphine had it going on. This isn't their greatest song and I don't think commercial music could support a lot of bands with this sound, but they nailed the dark neighborhood bar ambience.

Wow, it's rare for me to hear and instantly rate two songs back-to-back a strong 9, but this one and the one before - Lou Barlow's Holding Back The Year - are at least that good.  I never paid much attention to Morphine before, but this tune really is a sexy beast.

I'm glad I tuned in this fine evening.  (but then, most stuff does sound better at night for some strange reason).  

 crinky wrote: 
I'd start with "Yes," although "Good" & "Cure For Pain" are also excellent.

Good to hear all you Morphine haters bag on this song.  Less Morphine for you means more for me.  Overlooking the sublime synergy of Mark Sandman's voice, the "slutty" sax & upright bass truly proves one lacks passion & soul.

I only need to hear the first few notes to realised, oh shit, this is Morphine. And then off go the earphones.

Give me another shot of morphine. It's Monday

 prettypunk wrote: 

Well, they are called Morphine, for heaven's sake!

Love, love. love Morphine...super sexy music....

I think I've come to a point in my life when I've accepted and realized that I hate Sax.