“DC” by Died Pretty

Died Pretty's "DC" was the second single pulled off Doughboy Hollow, the Australian band's fourth album, arriving in September 1991 with Hugh Jones producing and Ron Peno, Brett Myers and Steve Clark sharing the music credit. Peno wrote the words for a close friend who died while the band was touring Europe, and the title is that friend's initials.

It's a song about loss and learning to live with it, but it doesn't sink under the weight; it rises, and Peno sings it like a man with nothing left to hold back. He later agreed it had become something of an anthem and said he loved it because it came so plainly from the heart. Its video was up for Best Video at the 1992 ARIA Awards, and Double J later named it among the finest Australian songs of the 1990s.

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