Throwback Thursday: Blood on the Wall

I know, I know, I've been failing on my other feature lately, but I'll get one up this weekend hopefully. This one's gonna be cool, too. I take a song that received a bit of praise and/or hype from last year or two ago that has fallen off the radar. Like, Blood on the Wall's "Mary Susan," for instance. And then I talk about the band/song and post the song and maybe some others. These songs are good songs, by the way, not songs that fell off 'cos they aren't so good (ahem, Beirut - never really liked those guys).Blood on the Wall's Awesomer (released 2005) received a "Recommended" rating from Pitchfork, and track "Mary Susan" received a fair amount of hype. This trio from Brooklyn sounds pretty much exactly the same as the Pixies, but with some more noise and some less new wave. Their album found its way on pretty much no one's year-end lists, and neither did the stellar "Mary Susan." This leads me to beleive that many people have missed out on this stellar (if derivative) song (which is the whole idea here - these songs are good, but they have been forgotten). So here it is.

Mary Susan {(SKwS Top Track)}
Reunite on Ice (SKwS Recommended Track)

Oh and by the way, Digsy over at Q,BiM is doing a Kasabian contest which runs out tomorrow! So hurry up and win some playing cards and other such Kasabian-related goodies!