| Real Life Rock Top 10 By Greil Marcus |
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4) The Great Crusades, "Never Go Home" (Glitterhouse/Germany) When this Chicago foursome set off on their third album, with "Hand Grenade Head" and "Out of Our Little Town" ("They don't sell sleeping pills over the counter," Brian Krumm sings, and you know that's as hopeful as the song will get), they carry themselves like Midwestern gangsters: with the determined, bitter nihilism of Tom Hanks in "Road to Perdition," but also the gleeful nihilism of Billy Zane in "This World, Then the Fireworks." But as the road out of town gets longer, you hear a guitar player putting a south-of-the-border melody on "The Wild Bunch," surf combos tuning up in Southern California in 1962, a steel-guitarist clocking in in Nashville, a banjo player picking for himself somewhere in Virginia in the 1920s, and the band never hurries a step. more press |
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