Red House Painters - New Jersey

I never really got into Red House Painters in the way some of my friends did. In part, I put that down to a residual suspicion of Mark Kozelek, which may not be entirely fair. Some of their music, in fairness, really is quite exquisitely beautiful, if a bit... self-indulgent.

In 1993 they released two self-titled albums, both of which contained different versions of this track. I'm apparently the only person in the world who prefers this one, the more upbeat of the two, from the second of the albums (their third overall). But judge for yourself - the first version is here.