958. GOGOL BORDELLO, "Ultimate"
Produced by Victor Van Vugt and Gogol Bordello; written by Gogol Bordello & Eugene Hutz
2007 Did not make pop charts
You know, normally I try to spread things out chronologically here, and I've already done more than enough singles from last year for the time being, but I just saw this band the other night and I can't stop thinking about them.
You know how Keith Richards always says that it's ludicrous to call the Rolling Stones the greatest rock and roll band in the world? That every night there's a different band that's the greatest rock and roll band and that they could be playing anywhere? Well, Friday night this was the greatest rock and roll band in the world, and they were playing in a drained pool in Brooklyn. People were dancing in circles, women were kicking their heels all the way up to their butts, and men were ripping off their shirts. Then a samba drumline joined the band onstage, and the lead singer, the disturbingly mustachioed Eugene Hutz, invited the entire audience to an afterparty at the band's favorite restaurant on Ludlow Street in Manhattan. It was the most intense show I can remember seeing in ages, particularly with that big a crowd.
And this is the single to commemorate that with, not just because it was the song they opened with, not just because it opened their most recent album, but because it's about saying fuckit to order and memory and all things tidy. There was never any good old days/They are today, they are tomorrow/It's a stupid thing we say/Cursing tomorrow with sorrow. This is an entry I didn't plan, simply to commemorate the gloriously unruly music of the eternal NOW.
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