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I’ve been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met

Yes, another mid-90s era track, but this is a classic. Caught it playing over the radio this morning and I couldn’t resist to repeat it on my playlist now.

With one of the longest song name title I can remember and with an ultra cool band name, Primitive Radio Gods hit it big with B.B. King’s How Blue Can You Get sampled single Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand from the album Rocket in 1996. The track also appeared in Jim Carrey’s The Cable Guy soundtrack, which includes Silverchair, Cypress Hill, Filter, Ruby, Cracker, Porno for Pyros and Pearl Jam-affiliated $10,000 Gold Chain (both did Lou Reed covers) to name a few. Alice in Chain’s guitarist Jerry Cantrell also performed a solo track.

Phonebooth gave Primitive Radio Gods cult status for a while, before the evil-do of the recording industry dropped the Gods whilst still working on a next record. In the own words of singer/song-writer Jerry O’Connor, “It was like, ‘It’s fine if we fail, if we make a second record and there’s no hits and nobody likes it,’ but don’t we even get a chance to fail?”.

Bummer.

Download: Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth… (MP3 format)

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