A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
Mazzy Star's finest stand-alone songs wrapped David Roback's slow, trippy, retro-psychedelic guitar grooves in the warm transcendence of Hope Sandoval's ethereal vocals, as pretty and melodic as they were hypnotic. But "Mary Of Silence," from 1993's still-powerful So Tonight That I Might See, dispenses with the beautiful bits, going for something far spookier. A lengthy organ drone with Sandoval's torture-room whispers battling against Roback's horror movie guitar slashes, the song sounds like the twisted spawn of The Doors' "The End" and Pink Floyd's "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." Not necessarily the tune you'd pick for pleasant background listening; but if you're sitting in a dark room late at night as the edible starts kicking in, this will work wonders.Live version (audio):Cover by Jeff The Brotherhood:
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