Okkervil River - Black (live in London)

Okkervil River at London Cargo on 8th May 2006. It was an amazing performance. View's not great but the sound quality is pretty good, just missing the first few seconds.

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Music

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• okkervil
• river
• black
• live
• london
• cargo

[Tremoloep]

This song is about a woman who got abducted and violated as a kid and couldn't get over it, isn't it? Man, very powerful when he mentioned how he's gonna tear the guy's throat! I just love the way Okkervil River use tragedies like that as their material. Totally real and compelling, too. This is my second or third favorite Okkervil River's song(I just can't quit their version of Omie Wise!)

[emenikmatis]

Yeah, great song. Probably their best. This is music.

[Shn000dle]

@ashkon52

I get teary at this too. I think Will Sheff is a very unusual man, particularly in the way he sees women and writes about them.

[ashkon52]

The part that almost gets me really teary, "when I watch you Im proud". Such a rollercoaster of emotions as he tries to deal with what this woman has just revealed to him. Anger, vengance, feeling useless, frantic, trying to come to terms with it. Its such an impulsive and desperate song. I dont think in Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Cat Stevens many masterful years of wisdom they ever managed to capture this sort of human emotion.

[XeeGen]

If there ever was a song title so perfectly chosen it must be Black.

[JBrrou]

fantastic song

[flamingduck33]

This is a great song. Jagjaguwar, their label, has this and a bunch of other OR songs for free on their site.

[truch2]

especially in a track The War Criminal Rises and speaks....and I'm from Serbia

[WrongHandLane]

So powerful, this is what makes this band so amazing.

[grebgreb64]

heroes.

[DarkSky48]

This totally reminds me of a more tuneful version of Bear Vs. Shark

[jastecs]

their best song probably... i really love it!!!