My Top 1000 Songs #760: Piss Diary

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Sure, the song title suggests you're about to hear some noisy UK punk track circa 1978... and instead you find an absolutely gorgeous, pastoral ballad, ideal for drifting off to sleep or at least heading for an herbally-abetted trip sprawled out on the couch.

The Chapel Hill, NC indie band's marvelous self-titled 2000 debut is a beautiful delight from start to finish, making picking a Kingsbury Manx favorite a tough endeavor, but the gentle, elongated "Piss Diary" has always captivated me. Equal parts the Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes" and something from Pink Floyd's pre-Dark Side Of The Moon stoner folk phase, it never fails to put my soul at ease.

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