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Only The Good Die Young

from Angry Young Man by L. Mounts

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I put together three or four different versions of this before deciding on the one that made the record. My idea, initially, was to split the album into two parts; the first side being the rock-oriented songs, and the second side being the ballads. Joel has said in interviews that this song was originally a reggae tune, and that was impossible for me to do. I tried to slow it down and make it extremely folk-inspired, something like a Clem Snide / Eef Barzelay rrecording, but ultimately I just didn't feel it was my real passion and appreciation coming through. I didn't want to play it exactly like the original, but at least found it much easier to sing in the same key, and changed up the rhythms a bit to give it a sort of blues feel. It's such a classic song, it's hard to mess with.

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from Angry Young Man, released November 20, 2015

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Singer of songs. Abstainer of substances. Bringer of plagues.

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