SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: KING’S X – “FLIES AND BLUE SKIES”

Of all the crazy, trippy shit King’s X have done, “Flies and Blue Skies” from 1993’s ahead-of-its-time Dogman is one of the most immediately haunting and creepy songs the band ever released. Ty Tabor’s trademark pedaled arpeggios and Doug Pinnick’s butter-smooth voice roll over a surreal-feeling 3/4 beat like something out of a really frightening and confusing dream, the kind where you’re kind of somewhere you know but it isn’t really that place and then a bunch of weird things happen and you’re kind of somewhere else and you’re wandering around and not really sure what to do but you know you have to do something. Or I’m just really stoned right now.

King’s X – “Flies and Blue Skies”

-VN