Throwing Muses, as I have stated elsewhere, is my favorite band ever. I've seen them live twice (1989, 1995) and neither time did they disappoint.
And if there was ever a post I had been dying to write, it was this one.
This song, from 1992's Red Heaven, is almost every Muses's fan's favorite song. It has been compared to "Stairway To Heaven", and I get that comparison - it's epic and pulls on a wide range of emotions. Essentially a fever dream, Kristin Hersh's vocals and unaccompanied opening guitar give me chills every time. In the middle, it moves to a very bass-and-drum heavy song
Live, the song has a slightly different feel, with Hersh on an electric instead of acoustic guitar... but Bernard Georges and David Narcizo still don't accompany her until nearly two minutes into the song, which opens a bombastic two and a half minutes before it becomes a soulful solo again. Simply beautiful, it is a song that you need to listen to until the end.
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