Soul Coughing - Pensacola Lyrics

M Doughty ruined the greatest band ever made. I hope no forgets this. He can write all the books he wants. He did it

Here because of The Mandalay Bay, October 1st, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada...58 dead, 500+ wounded...

What Atmosphere is to Joy Division, I think Pensacola is to Soul Coughing. Might be a tinge of "The Lonely One," by The Wipers.

Now bitch. I am on foot.

Is it Doughty singing in this one?

Yes.

"When we got into the studio we tried it with just the bass and the vocal, but it wasn’t working, and while we glumly checked our monitor levels for another take, I turned up my vocal real loud in my headphones and sort of slurred the lyrics to hear the volume. And Mark, who was in the control room, exclaimed, “Oh, man, you gotta do a take like that!” So I did–real low and wan and whispery. It sounded absolutely nothing like me.

It sounded fucking dreadful to me. “Erase that,” I said, “I sound like a drunk guy.” But they pleaded. “Uh-uh, no,” I said, “no drunk-guy-vocal.”

So I redid the vocal in the Billy Bragg bellow, and we laid out the other parts around it. It didn’t sound particularly special. Then Tchad, with a mischievious look on his face, hit a button and the old drunk-guy vocal comes in. The thing is, when I redid the vocal I did it a little off from where the drunk-guy vocal was, so everything we’d layered on top was slightly out of whack, slightly off-kilter. And it sounded beautiful."

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This was my favorite song in high school. I can't believe it doesn't have more views than this.

favourite soul coughing song, listening so many times, can't listen enough

doesnt sound like doughty though... idk y

Soul Coughing was the better alternative rock band of the Fu**ing world, their lyrics was the most simple song, but it was like diamond+gold and 300$

Eerie, moody, darkly brilliant way to capture the essence of a sense of menace, simmering beneath an onslaught of blinding sun, beautiful beaches and benevolent palm trees...

Survivor2002 benevolent palm trees 😂

pure doughty awesomeness