ALBUM: KEROSENE HAT
SONG: LOSER
DATE: 1993
STATUS: ACQUIRED
Growing up as a kid in the 80's we knew all current music sucked. It wasn't Pearl Jam or Nirvana that pulled me out of that bias, but Cracker. David Lowery's special mix of pessimistic literate optimism played well to my own contrarian tendencies. Among the hippies I was the square, among the squares I was the wild haired nature boy. Loser is a cover of a Grateful Dead song. The hook is replete with confidence and arrogance, but the speaker's authenticity is ever doubtful except for one thing. Life is a bad deal in the country and a bad deal in the town. That's original sin.
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