Foxheads Stalk This Land

Certain Songs #239: Close Lobsters – “In Spite of These Times”

July 2, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Foxheads Stalk This Land
Year: 1987.

While Foxheads Stalk This Land came out in 1987, I didn’t buy it until 1988, which is why my memories of listening to it revolve around the apartment at Wishon & McKinley during the dread summer of 1988.

That summer was those times in my life where it felt like everything was crashing around me, and the Wishon & McKinley apartment was the first time in my life I’d ever lived alone, so music felt like it was pretty much all I had.

Thus, my love for “In Spite of These Times.”

Certain Songs #238: Close Lobsters – “A Prophecy”

July 1, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Foxheads Stalk This Land
Year: 1988.

One of my favorite running Twitter jokes is to take a random phrase that someone has just tweeted and use it as a band name. The usual construction is something like “I saw Fake Dead Girlfriend open for the Pixies at the i-Beam in 1991.”

The reason, of course, that this joke works is that there are real-life bands with names like “Close Lobsters.” It’s a name that makes no godsdamned sense, and it might even be just weird enough to be off-putting, which I guess is part of the point.