Day 21 - An Album To Get Drunk To
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
There hasn’t been a more obvious choice for me during this whole event. At the age of 30 I had just broken up with my girlfriend of 4 years, I was renting a room out at a friend’s house, and working for peanuts at a dead-end job that I hated......and would soon be laid off from, which forced me to move back into my parents basement.
It wasn’t the best time for me. Haha. That was in 2010. The year The Monitor released. The spite, vitriol, and anger in this album struck me to my very soul. But, floating just under the surface in that sea of self-loathing there was something brighter....something resembling hope.
You will always be a loser....you will always be a loser......AND. THAT’S. OKAY.
This album, to me, is a celebration of all that it takes to feel you are worth something even when the world seems to be telling you otherwise. An anthem for a new tomorrow that must test the limits of your stereo. A cheers to the oppressors and a cracked smile with a “fuck you” hiding just behind the clenched teeth.
I mean, there’s a song that starts, “I’m sorry, mama, but I been drinkin again...” how can you not raise a glass to that‽
My favorite album of 2010 and possible the last decade.
It is the Born To Run for Generation Whatever.
Tramps like us, baby we were born to die!
