Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.

This is “Please Respect Our Decadence” by Algebra Suicide:

Until very recently I’d never heard of Algebra Suicide, a late eighties/early nineties band from Chicago. For the past year or so I’ve been in email conversation with the filmmaker Mark Blottner, who is one of the producers/directors of the documentary Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, The Road Is All, which I highly recommend looking out for. Anyway, somewhere in the last couple of months the conversation turned to music, and Mark sent me various links to bands from the Chicago scene that centered, at least in part, on a bar called Phyllis’ Musical Inn. You can get a flavor of that scene in this video from the public television show “Wild Chicago” (and also by clicking on the link in the previous sentence).  Anyway, it’s always nice when a connection through literature turns to a connection through music, so I thought I’d share this song, and get back to listening to all the other stuff Mark threw my way, some of which may appear in this space further down the road (which is, of course, all…).