Good by Morphine

Good, Morphine's first album, came out in 1992 on the Accurate/Distortion label, and Rykodisc reissued it the following year once the Boston trio signed on. Paul Q. Kolderie produced, and the lineup is the whole trick: no electric guitar in the band, just Dana Colley's baritone saxophone, Mark Sandman's two-string bass and the drums, a power trio built from the bottom up. The band called it "low rock", and that's exactly how it feels: smoky, slinky, bluesy and jazzy, with a beatnik's cool running through Sandman's songs.

Sandman sings in a deep, unhurried murmur, like a man leaning on the bar at 2 a.m. telling you a story he has told before, and the title track rides a groove so low you feel it in your ribs. Cure for Pain came next.

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