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8 out of 10
This new single, with its boogie-woogie piano, twangy gee-tar and rolling drums, was the stand-out track from this Bright Eyes dude's last solo album and is a good-time country-rock hoedown about the last desperate anxieties torturing the mind of a dying man. Woo! Alright!
Once again displaying his florid yet crooked creative bent, Oberst is on superb lyrical form, rattling out anguished pleas to be pulled out of the sick bed with an unerring, dark-humoured catharsis. It is ludicrously catchy, too. A song you won't ever forget after just hearing it once, especially as the song's title is also the opening 3 lines. Its irresistible campfire 'clap-along' feel would only fail to rouse the dead. Speaking of which, help him get his boots on. take him back outside: 'They won't let you smoke and you can't get drunk.looking like a girl in my sleeping gown. Can you get this tube out of my arm...?' Set the man free, for God's sake.
This is a cracking single that deserves to be a huge hit and get used over footage in a new BBC documentary on the NHS. It's sure to be a hit on Nashville hospital radio anyway.
Listen: www.myspace.com/conoroberst
Tracklist:
1. I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital)
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