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The Bottles - Sylvester Stallone and the woodland creature

I have been asking my friends this question, the Groveling Groans or the Bottles, and the answer has resoundingly been the Bottles and just about everybody hates the Groans. I don’t think I’m surprised, but it’s strange that the Bottles so readily translate across generations but the Groans are religated in large part into your parent’s musical catalog.

But in the meantime, that’s not whose turn it is.  This is one of my favorite Bottle’s tracks.  I first heard it from Jeff Olsen when he played it on his guitar for me.  I made him play it a lot.  I like the character descriptions, the gin-drinking doctor, the girl with two names, the empty hotel room which actually holds redemption.  I really love the album of white, but I have a hard time with some of their more psychadelically weird stuff, and I could never sit through their cartoon, but they are a fantastic band.