Thursday 30 April 2015

Avail - Scuffle Town

  Today's song was one of my favourites from the 90's, it came out in 1998 on Lookout! Records and was on Over The James which was the 4th album by Richmond, Virginia's, Avail. (They actually formed in Reston, Virginia but were mainly based in Richmond and many of their songs were influenced by the city).
  Forming in 1987, they released 6 studio albums in total, the first being 1992's Satiate, this was followed by 3 on Lookout! (Dixie, 4AM Friday and Over The James) and then a couple on Fat Wreck Chords (One Wrench, Front Porch Stories). Though they didn't officially split up, they haven't played together since 2008.

  I'm sure most of you are already familiar with them and do I won't bother writing a longer intro, I'll just mention again what a great song this is and post the lyrics in case you feel like singing along!

  This is Scuffle Town.....

There's kepone in the river
But the river's still
Flowing east
Ethyl dozed the planet
In an attempt to keep
The downtown clean
Still it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day
And the sun is still shining, shining, shining, shining
OVER THE JAMES
Oregon Hill is at end time
VCU crept up and lit the torch
West ave. honkeys don't forget
That trains still run north
Still it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day
And the sun is still shining, shining, shining, shining
OVER THE JAMES
Third per-capita
Third per-capita yeah
Third per-capita
Next year Number one
it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day
And the sun is still shining, shining, shining, shining
OVER THE JAMES

 

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