Pitchfork on Bushido Karaoke

Posted on August 31, 2005 by Tito

Pitchfork gives a generally favorable review (7.5), complete with left-handed compliments, to one of my favorite recent buys Mayday’s Bushido Karaoke.

Trading in his former syrupy drizzle for a more
varied, gothic take on American mythology, Stevens’ songwriting has
become much livelier and grittier; at its best, it channels the
theatrical noir of Nick Cave.

The INXS cover is quite catchy, but the songs I often come back to are Rock and Roll Can’t Save Your Life (fav. line: "but they just might save the night") and Song of the Scaffold, the first-person narrative of a re-capitated hangee.

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