The Verlaines - We're All Gonna Die

I'm also long overdue for another Flying Nun song. The Verlaines have made a number of appearances here, but I don't think I've posted anything from their third album, Some Disenchanted Evening, even though I absolutely love it. Then again, I love all their albums.

At the time Disenchanted seemed like something of a departure for the Verlaines - it was a bit more straightforward, with less of the complicated classically-inspired orchestration of its predecessors (Graeme Downes, don't forget, has a PhD in Mahler). In retrospect, it's still a pretty off-the-wall album compared to the ones that followed it. This is probably the most "pop" song on it musically, but the words are another matter...

From 1990.