Rhapsody Song of the Day

Song: Burn
Album: Crime
Artist: Against Me!
Selected by: Tim Quirk
Date: August 13, 2008

With nary a distortion pedal in sight (indeed, with little instrumentation beyond some fiercely strummed acoustic guitars and beleaguered drums), Tom Gabel still manages to out-punk your average tattooed media darling. The insane tempo helps (you have no idea what he’s howling about till he slows down near the end and you can make out,  “It’ll burn, burn, burn/ Like they did to the anarchists … like the history they stole from us”), but mostly it’s just the unmistakable sense that his righteous indignation is real.

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