| Atmosphere – Lifter Puller Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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jaimemartinez527, this song almost literally reads like a translation of Lifter Puller's collective work. For those not in the know, Lifter Puller was an art punk band from Minneapolis that told a story across four albums and some b-sides. It was a story about a character (loosely based on the lead singer Craig Finn) and his girlfriend. The first album starts at the end high school (with some references to it) and continues on into the mid-twenties of the characters by the last album. The characters were hardcore drug addicts, and the story reveals the crazy life that this can lead to. To take a comment out of a Broker Dealer song (one of Craig Finn's bands post Lifter Puller), this collective work leads to laying out the "late twenties null and void" that the druggy life leads too. It is notable that Craig Finn has loosely continued this story in his newest band, The Hold Steady. I say that to mention that this band came into being well after Atmosphere wrote the song about Lifter Puller. If Slug had heard The Hold Steady music, he might have written a different song as The Hold Steady is much for Pop Punk and has a more positive outlook on life. |
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