Showing posts with label rancid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rancid. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Beauty Of the Pool Hall - Rancid

Beauty Of the Pool Hall - Rancid
2:16
Trouble Maker, 2017
Written by Tim Armstrong

A paean to a lady named Angel, a rough beauty whom the narrator pined for, or was involved with.  He would always see her around the workin-class gin joint, before she left abruptly one day.  "Kindness, a language that she always spoke / Lord, the way she could communicate."  It's got all of Rancid's trademark bits: breakneck solos, singalong choruses, Armstrong's mumbled raspy rap-singing, fragmented lyrics.  Not their greatest  song but a fair representative.

The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show - The Band

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