30-day Challenge, Day 8
Slobberbone: Pinball Song
Brent Best is Slobberbone’s lead singer and songwriter. (if that makes him the “head Boner,” I’m sure he’d like that title.) He has an amazing way with words, often constructing hilarious metaphors for the tribulations of everybody’s life. (”Gimme Back My Dog” is worth seeking out.) Among his finest songs — and there are so many fine songs — is perhaps the greatest break-up song ever written (“Wonderous Life”), one of the funniest songs ever about frat party hookups (“Whiskey Glass Eye”), and this little ditty about everything that goes wrong between boys and girls when too much alcohol is involved. It even contains my wife’s favorite line: “I saw that girl you used to know, at the other end of the bar / I never thought she’d ever get that far.”
I saw Slobberbone only once, back in about 1998, and they were among the loudest, most raucous bands I know, no small feat given that they were essentially just a country band on steroids. As one of my college friends would say, there's country-punk and country-PUNK! These guys are the latter, and just fking great in every way.