Good is an album of moody, often depressing music. Tom Waits, Jack Keroack, Nick Cave, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen I urge the serious music listener to check out at least their first four albums, because they are all great.
The song quality is way above average, but because they are so often low key the band is often overlooked among the grunge scene of the 90’s. This music is still you know, verse chorus verse, all that stuff, it is only different in the fact that there is no electric guitar (the sax takes its place). They write great songs with a jazzy feel but they still rock in their own way. To them I say this: Morphine are one of the greatest bands ever because they have created a whole new sound, based on the swing of the 40’s and 50’s combined with the best moody singer-songwriters and crooners of the late 20th century (Cohen, Waits, Cave, even Presley) and actually DONE something with it. Most people would not give this band a chance, saying “oh they are different, but they are not good” or another one I have heard is “all their songs sound the same”.
With a two-string bass, lead singer Mark Sandman glides the listener along with soothing life lessons a baritone sax by Dana Colley provides even more low instrumentation and the drums of Jerry Dupree and later Bill Conway are much more creative than most 90’s rock bands. Morphine’s music is a new twist on traditional rock music.
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