When I was a freshman in high school I met this girl who, as it turned out, had a music taste very much like my own. This was surprising to me at the time because I never met another person whose music library was almost alike in every way to mine. I was really happy about this considering it was my first couple of weeks in a new town where I didn't know a soul.
We shared a lot of music that year, one of the bands she turned me on to was Minus The Bear. I instantly fell in love and downloaded every song I could find and even bought some CDs (who buys those anymore? Sorry Record Labels.)
As with most bands I download, I get more songs than I can handle at the time, and a few songs fly under my radar, some for months or years at a time. One such song was Absinthe "Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse" a behemoth of a song for me at the time, weighing in at five and half minutes (At the time this was an absolute ballad for me, I was still a year or two from listening to Phish and the Grateful Dead, everything is relative I guess...)
To get the full experience, close your eyes. This song is truly amazing, great intro, lyrics are solid, and a droning but evolving sound (not unlike Modest Mouse's "Dramamine" in the sense that they both build off of a single riff.)
This past December I got to see this band in concert, I was waiting the whole show for this song and they walk off stage, and I'm eagerly waiting to see what the encore was, and lo and behold! This was it! (This song is a horse of a completely different color live, trust me, possibly even better)
Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse by Minus The Bear from Highly Refined Pirate (2002)
— S
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