2000 Great Songs #1431: Down By The Sea
Not for the first time this month , we're hitting an extended groove that serves more for a massive jam session than a proper song. This time, it's Bay Area neo-psychedelia band Wooden Shjips (see also Moon Duo and Rose City Band ), from their lo-fi 2009 second album, Dos . The ten-minute "Down By The Sea" is an insistent, unchanging 3-note bassline anchoring some reverbed, beamed-in-from-outer-space vocals and headphone-friendly noodling, a happy medium between Krautrock and Yo La Tengo that you kinda wish would go on forever. Turn on & space out, my friends! Delightfully shitty-sounding live clip: (Sadly, doesn't stream so it won't make the playlist.) See the entire Top 2000 to date in a sortable database !
