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    “No Future, Pt. Three: Escape from No Future” - Titus Andronicus

    Even though I’m well past my teenage years at this point, I still come across songs from time to time that, while I like a whole lot now, I’m absolutely sure I would have been in love with as a 15 or 16 year old. “No Future, Pt. Three…” is absolutely one of those songs, with its raggedly angry/bouncy guitar lines, impassioned lyrics and vocals and sing-a-long-us-against-the-world-with-fists-pumping-in-the-air conclusion (You will always be a loser…and that’s okay!).  It hits on everything I was stuck on back then: the swirling confusion of feelings and hormones, the anger at the world that seemed to exist just to exist, the assurance that I was a loser, but the hope in hoping that there were a lot of others just like me out there and that we’d all be okay.

    So even though I’m well past most all of that now, I can still hear a song like this and remember what that felt like, and remember all over again just how important rock n’roll is at that age, how it feels like it can save you somehow, if you just played it loud enough, listening on repeat.

    The entire record Titus Andronicus record (The Monitor) is a lot like that, full of an urgency and immediacy that can’t be denied, and it reminds you that there aren’t nearly enough records like that coming out these days.  And how important it is to celebrate it whenever one does. Yes, it’s a concept record of sorts revolving around the Civil War, but it’s also entirely modern, and vital listening for your ears, no matter what age they be.

     
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