“Good” by Morphine

Mark Sandman wrote "Good" alone, words and music, and it's the title track of Good, the 1992 debut album from the Boston trio Morphine. The record first came out on the Accurate/Distortion label and went back into the shops on Rykodisc in 1993, once the band had signed there.

It's the album that introduced their strange, low-slung sound: a wailing saxophone, bass played as the lead instrument with a slide, and lyrics that owe a debt to '50s beat poetry, all of it slinking between blues and bebop without ever settling on either. Alternative rock fans grabbed hold of Morphine first, even though the music leaned closer to jazz.

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