“Dirt Room” by Blue October

"Dirt Room" opened the Approaching Normal chapter for Blue October as the first single from their fifth studio album, hitting digital stores two days before Christmas 2008 and radio in January 2009. Five writers share the credit, frontman Justin Furstenfeld, Jeremy Furstenfeld, Ryan Delahoussaye, C.B. Hudson and Matt Noveskey, with Steve Lillywhite producing.

Kevin Kerslake's video is a nasty little thriller: Furstenfeld plays a robber whose would-be victim turns the tables, ties him up and threatens to bury him alive, and it ends with him laid in an open grave while a crowd, two police officers among them, looks on, all cut against the band playing in the captor's living room. The song has lived on in other shapes, as an acoustic take on Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening With Blue October and a live electric one on Things We Do At Night - Live From Texas.

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