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Album: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
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7.3

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Total ratings: 1610









Released: 2015
Length: 4:04
Plays (last 30 days): 0
I'm gonna need someone to help me
I'm gonna need somebodies hand
I'm gonna need someone to hold me down
I'm gonna need someone to care
I'm gonna writhe and shake my body
I'll start pulling out my hair
I'm going to cover myself
with the ashes of you
and nobody's gonna give a damn

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

Now for seventeen years
I've been throwing them back
Seventeen more will bury me
Can somebody please just tie me down
Or somebody give me a goddamn drink

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

My heart was aching
hands are shaking
bugs a crawling all over me.
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Nothing less than a 10!  Just because I know the feeling of "bugs are crawlin' all over me..."  Somebody gimme a goddamm drink!
Never thought I would write something like this here but I hate this song and always have.
 Punkysoup wrote:

Producer:  Hey nobodies written a song about a son of a bitch, whata ya think?

Artist: Lame.

Producer: I'll get the contract.
Liking NR & the Night Sweats more each time I hear them (not just this tune); also looking forward to catching them in concert on this summer's tour!
GREAT!!! Every time I hear this song, it just gets BETTER!!!  ...Especially the clapping on the back beat!!!
Godlike! I never heard of him before. Thanx RP!
 Punkysoup wrote:


Wife in the next room says, "Sounds cool, what's that?." I say "you need to see this."
 mattenuttall wrote:

Love it. Just fires you up.

Seriously though, try matching that clapping -- I don't think clapping is often a backbeat, it's usually on the beat...



Friends don't let friends clap on 1 & 3
 dmcanany wrote:

Can't play that on FM! Glad we can hear it here. 




Our local college music station has this as their 5-o'clock-on-Friday anthem.  It's where I first heard it.  They seem to have a lot more leeway in what they put on the air, and it's a better station for that.
 tgrier wrote:

As someone who has become sober, I find the happy and bouncy nature of the song disturbing. 

He is asking for help. 



I' m now 3+ years sober, and I still love this tune as much as the first time I heard it.  Maybe you're in the wrong aa group.  In my home group we laugh more at stuff like this, and our former drinking behaviours, than we do despairing about our former lives.  
Even though the subject matter is dark and serious, the gospel style and mixing make like it could have been recorded during the Motown heyday at Capitol Records in the late 1960s. Especially with the large reverb chamber sound.
As someone who has become sober, I find the happy and bouncy nature of the song disturbing. 

He is asking for help. 
having gone through this myself, this is exactly what it feels like.... 
thanks Nate!  

now, Somebody give me a goddamn drink!
 whatsupdude wrote:
Sorry this song sucked from day one!
 
And your point being?
 richardmaki wrote:
If you spend a lifetime boozin you will appreciate the lyrics.  Specially the bug reference.

cheers,
 

just saw a better comment down the line. But it is a
truly catchy song (while detoxing?) and some of us have been pretty
close to there...



Sorry this song sucked from day one!
Song for the current times...
a 7 just for how Mr. Rateliff yells 'sonovabitch!' when starting the choruses
 lethias wrote:

Interestingly enough I think it is a very very good band. One of my greatest finds last year. They make my day anytime {#Bananapiano}
 Given his age of 37 at the time the song was released, this could very well be autobiographical. 17 years of drinking would be about right.  There but for the grace of God...  Watched one drinking buddy die from cirrhosis while we drank almost to the end, watched another go through DTs.  The song nails it. 

Love it! What a great fun song! Son of a B! (#!!!
This song popped into my head a couple of days ago, and I've been waiting for it to come on here. THANK YOU BILL! 

Although I can't complain. There are many worse earworms.
Can't play that on FM! Glad we can hear it here. 
Came in toward the end of the tune (Nathaniel's caterwauling) and briefly thought it was Manolo Badrena and Alex Acuna's excellent "Rumba Mama" off of Weather Report's "Heavy Weather". Slightly disappointed to know that wasn't the case.
 Alexandra wrote:
A couple of my friends with young children say (with remorse) how since this is actually a radio-friendly song....their kids gleefully sing along with the chorus as they're driving in the car or even at home when it's not being played on the radio...and they hope to God they don't start singing it in public.

 

SONNOVABITCH!!!.....


 
As do my kids... Luckily they think the chorus is "Sun on the beach."
Hot DAMN this is fun!  Morbid as all get out, but so much fun!
 ckevin63 wrote:
At Pilgimage Festival in Franklin Tn this past September, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band joined them on this song.....and it was awesome. Heard the song in a whole different way- the brass totally fleshed out and full, and then of course, audience sing-a-long. Pretty cool.
 
Same thing happened at the Bourbon and Beyond Fest in Louisville last September as well. It was fantastic!
Just hope this isn't an omen song, like Rehab was for Amy Winehouse
At Pilgimage Festival in Franklin Tn this past September, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band joined them on this song.....and it was awesome. Heard the song in a whole different way- the brass totally fleshed out and full, and then of course, audience sing-a-long. Pretty cool.
Just flat out fun!!!
he dances up a storm
https://www.google.com/search?q=songs+about+delirium+tremens

suprisingly more results than I expected...
 nomnol wrote:

Yeah, it wears pretty thin after a few times played.

 
Yeah, it got played over and over because he kept yelling "Son of a bitch" and that is 'roll your eyes' quality ....
 mattenuttall wrote:
Love it. Just fires you up.

Seriously though, try matching that clapping -- I don't think clapping is often a backbeat, it's usually on the beat...
 

My wife has a music minor and played symbols in the Big Red Marching Machine at Illinois State University (I played tuba)... she has some rhythm! She always claps the backbeat! I was taught to play tuba... I have no natural ability, and therefore, no rhythm.
Love it. Just fires you up.

Seriously though, try matching that clapping -- I don't think clapping is often a backbeat, it's usually on the beat...
I can't take this guys voice. He gets a 3 from me, and I have nicknamed him Nathaniel Rateliff and The Sweaty Balls
If you spend a lifetime boozin you will appreciate the lyrics.  Specially the bug reference.

cheers,
 PaganSkier wrote:
Son of a bitch I hope I never hear this song again.

 
Yeah, it wears pretty thin after a few times played.
 Ulises wrote:

I see this comment often but I've yet to see it quantified. What is too much play time?

By my quick calculation, I estimate that RP plays about 10,200 songs per thirty days. This song has been played THREE times over the last THIRTY days.

Is THREE times over THIRTY days out of 10,200 played songs too much play time?

 
Depends on the song.  In this song's case, once is too much for 30 YEARS.
Son of a bitch I hope I never hear this song again.
 Shmelo wrote:

Their whole career is a cover.

 
How so?  
Now here's a song for Good Friday!  Lent is over. Ha! 
 Shmelo wrote:
A really bad cover band.

 
Interestingly enough I think it is a very very good band. One of my greatest finds last year. They make my day anytime {#Bananapiano}
 Cannon wrote:

I this a cover?

 
I went to wikipedia to find an answer to this. It is not a cover.

Then I saw this:

In late May 2016, "S.O.B." was featured on Lipton's iced tea commercials. 

which is fricken hilarious cause reasons.
 Cannon wrote:

I this a cover?

 
Their whole career is a cover.
now here is some hot roast beef!
 Bat wrote:
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

 
Great call
Gospel and r & b had a kid with the AA theme song!  
 Shmelo wrote:
A really bad cover band.

 
I this a cover?
A really bad cover band.
 Ulises wrote:

I see this comment often but I've yet to see it quantified. What is too much play time?

By my quick calculation, I estimate that RP plays about 10,200 songs per thirty days. This song has been played THREE times over the last THIRTY days.

Is THREE times over THIRTY days out of 10,200 played songs too much play time?

 
I've heard it multiple times in the same day on one local radio station. Cool station but they do the "heavy rotation" thing which is just annoying.
Somehow reminds me of Bobby "Blue" Bland...
J'aime J'aime J'aime :-)
 AhhtheMusic wrote:
Liked it a lot but getting too much play time, IMO

 
I see this comment often but I've yet to see it quantified. What is too much play time?

By my quick calculation, I estimate that RP plays about 10,200 songs per thirty days. This song has been played THREE times over the last THIRTY days.

Is THREE times over THIRTY days out of 10,200 played songs too much play time?
Liked it a lot but getting too much play time, IMO
kicks ass!
grates on my nerves
Sonnovabitch! The DT's suck! Good luck with giving up the sauce Dude!
 linden wrote:

Well said. It's fun to listen to and I'm sure also fun to play, but doesn't add much to what's already gone before.

 
Its entertainment , just like any other piece of artwork past and future.

Whether you listen to it, look at it, sit on it, taste it, smell it, touch it, or use it, something has always been done , the future holds no surprises sometimes. 


 bhallmark wrote:
I can't get to the PSD button fast enough...

 
Did Mumford & Sons pop up?
 {#Beat}jhorton wrote:
But what would Jake & Elwood think?


 


But what would Jake & Elwood think?

 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:
These guys really bother me and I haven't quite sorted out why. They are so obviously trying to recreate a very specific kind of sound, sub-genre, and going to very great lengths to get everything note-perfect. It's not ironic, it's worshipful and respectful. 

But it's a recreation, and thus not original at all.  

The song is a museum-piece and the Nightsweats are curators. 

 
Well said. It's fun to listen to and I'm sure also fun to play, but doesn't add much to what's already gone before.
 skyguy wrote:
kinda sick of this one. They over played it on local radio, but he has a lot of other good tunes and they rock in concert! Also check him out in "Austin to Boston"
https://austintobostonfilm.com/

 

Agreed that this one is getting a little too much airtime for my taste.  Liked at first but fading quickly.
SOB!

I love this song, but drove my mom nutty me sing it.  LOL
 
 haljordan wrote:
He's the one child born in this world to carry on.

 
I can see that.
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
I can't get to the PSD button fast enough...

A couple of my friends with young children say (with remorse) how since this is actually a radio-friendly song....their kids gleefully sing along with the chorus as they're driving in the car or even at home when it's not being played on the radio...and they hope to God they don't start singing it in public.

 

SONNOVABITCH!!!.....


These guys really bother me and I haven't quite sorted out why. They are so obviously trying to recreate a very specific kind of sound, sub-genre, and going to very great lengths to get everything note-perfect. It's not ironic, it's worshipful and respectful. 

But it's a recreation, and thus not original at all.  

The song is a museum-piece and the Nightsweats are curators. 
Gimme that ol' time rock'n'roll.
Album cover needs more beard.
Thank you!! Second song by these guys I have heard here today. 
 haljordan wrote:
He's the one child born in this world to carry on.

 
Yah. You nailed that one Hal.
I thought it sounded a little like BRUCE. Had to check...
A fun song indeed but not the best from this album.
Would like to hear some other tracks like I Need Never Get Old...


kinda sick of this one. They over played it on local radio, but he has a lot of other good tunes and they rock in concert! Also check him out in "Austin to Boston"
https://austintobostonfilm.com/
This song is a blast!

The narrator should get some help, but the song is a blast!
why have i never heard this before!
Reminds me of many a partying night many, many moons ago.!
One of those tragically sad songs disguised by an impossibly righteous stompin' refrain. Son of a Bitch, that's a great song!
Fu*king garbage.
He's the one child born in this world to carry on.
 thewiseking wrote:
C'mon lil hipsters, that ain't singin
 

 
Maybe not, but he does pretty well on some of his other stuff. And,,,, I am far from a hipster.
C'mon lil hipsters, that ain't singin
 
Yes! Lit a fire under my stalled butt!
 
The Youtube video of this is pretty great too.
Woohoo!