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If I'd never heard this song and new nothing of the artist, if it was the first time I'd ever heard it, I'd be ecstatic. I've heard it a lot, but not in a long while. I'd forgotten what a great song it is. Here goes the asshole comparison: Hearing it again today, it's like Television meets the early Modern Lovers, on speed. I don't expect that to be a decipherable description unless you're familiar with both bands, and speed. But, man, this song achieves the near impossible, a song with at least a couple electric guitars and a driving beat but you can't really consider it a rocker. It's not really a singer songwriter thing as the lyrics don't do shit, the electronics are fairly minimized so it's not really a synth song, the guitar heroics are all but absent (though the guitar work is the shit). I gotta say, it's good to hear it again whatever the hell it is.

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Listen:
Brian Eno - Third Uncle mp3 at For the Sake of the Song