{"id":1333,"date":"2016-07-22T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2016-07-19T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:20:03","slug":"song-of-the-week-frankie-teardrop-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Frankie Teardrop&#8221; by Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Frankie Teardrop&#8221; by Suicide:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_dXp0eF8s0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first encountered Suicide through the song &#8220;Cheree&#8221; on a New York punk compilation CD I picked up sometime in the 1990s.\u00a0 Later, I bought <em>Suicide<\/em>, the 1977 album on which &#8220;Frankie Teardrop&#8221; appears. It&#8217;s relentless listening, and it&#8217;s not an album I listen to often, for that reason.\u00a0 On the other hand, it is excellent, and pretty unlike anything that came before it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/jul\/18\/suicide-alan-vega-punk-pioneer\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a thoughtful tribute to Alan Vega<\/a>, one half of Suicide, from <em>The Guardian. <\/em>Alan Vega died, aged 78, last Saturday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Frankie%20Teardrop%22%20by%20Suicide\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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