DBT Tracks #44 LOOKOUT MTN

[Clams]

Some thoughts about Lookout Mountain:

--possibly the best of any/all DBT songs to crank up LOUD.
--along with only a handful of other songs in the catalogue (Zip City, Let There be Rock, Hell No), Lookout Mountain from the very first note automatically shifts the rock show into high gear. Never fails.
-- for me the best part of the song is the pause and then repeat of Who's gonna lay their passing blame?



If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more for my soul to keep
I wonder who will drive my car
I wonder if my Mom will weep

If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more pain my soul to bare
No more worries about paying taxes
What to eat, what to wear
Who will end up with my records?
Who will end up with my tapes?
Who will pay my credit card bills?
Who's gonna pay for my mistakes?

If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain who will ever hear my songs?
Who's gonna mow the cemetery when all of my family's gone?
Who will Mom and Daddy find to continue the family name?
Who will stand there taking credit, who will lay there passing blame?

Who will lay there passing blame?

[bovine knievel]

Love this song and just heard it night 2 of Denver. As mentioned in the Denver thread, there is a Lookout Mtn in Colorado. Nice choice, Clams.

[scotto]

--possibly the best of any/all DBT songs to crank up LOUD.

Seconded.

[GuitarManUpstairs]

Definitely ratchets up the intensity as soon as the first chords are struck....perfect lyrics.... but my favorite part is towards the end where it feels like they're about to wrap it up and then Cooley just launches back into it and goes batshit crazy on another solo. It will never get old. LM on night one in Athens this year was particularly alsum...

[4sooner]

Definitely ratchets up the intensity as soon as the first chords are struck....perfect lyrics.... but my favorite part is towards the end where it feels like they're about to wrap it up and then Cooley just launches back into it and goes batshit crazy on another solo. It will never get old. LM on night one in Athens this year was particularly alsum...

Definitely one of my top 5 DBT songs. And I agree 100% about that Cooley lead at the end. Jut one badass ROCK song.

[Slipkid42]

Might be the best rock jam on ANY studio album ever.

[jessicaxinos]

I so agree with this - it just fucking rocks...the chord progession is PURE rock and ALWAYS gets me pumped! It's my 6 year olds favorite right now....

[beantownbubba]

First time I heard this live, I thought I had been hit by a truck. A big truck. Peterbilt, maybe ROCK. AND. ROLL.

Kind of reminded of that scene near the end of The Italian Job when "the real napster" finally gets his dream stereo, the one so big and so loud it will actually rip the clothes off a woman he places in front of it

[Kudzu Guillotine]

I always liked it on Alabama Ass Whuppin' but it wasn't until the studio version on The Dirty South that I came to love it. Somewhere in The Secret To A Happy Ending they cut to the Truckers onstage during the middle of "Lookout Mountain" where the band is enveloped in a wall of feedback. That is one of several scenes in the movie that sends a shiver up my spine.

[njMark]

My fav DBT song hands down, it is just non-stop kick ass from start to finish.

[Clams]

It's a pretty bleak song, lyrically. Could almost be Patterson's flip side to Living Bubba, as in "he says he wants to play more shows, but when he's alone this is the shit that's goes on inside his head."

[Iowan]

When I first started getting into DBT I read a review that referred to their sound as "some kind of lumbering musical beast". It wasn't intended to be a compliment, but I still thought it was an awesome description (and actually was a compliment).

Lookout Mountain is a lumbering, angry beast. And it will fuck you up.

[scotto]

A very powerful meditation on life. I've always thought "Lookout Mountain" was the perfect kick-ass rock 'n' roll distillation of Hamlet's soliloquy:

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

"Who will lay there passing blame?"

[beantownbubba]

Fancy.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Fancy

And AWESOME! DBT & the Bard. Who knew?

[RMD]

My favorite tune to open a rock show. It just reeks of "Ok, here we go".

[scotto]

Fancy.

Or one might say, "hoity toity."

[Mrs Swamp]

One of my all time favorite songs !!!~

[sactochris]

My favorite tune to open a rock show. It just reeks of "Ok, here we go".

It is a rather powerful way to fire up the rock show. It's like being punched in the chest with a Buick.

[Beaverdam]

For the past week or so I’ve been visiting family and friends in Virginia and preparing to go on an annual beach trip with my family, my parents, and some extended family. Since I now live 12-14 hours from my parents I see them less often, and they are aging more quickly. My dad is approaching 70 and is in great health (relatively speaking) but tires more easily than he did. Dad is retired but works part time and takes care of his yard, my aunt’s yard (was his parents’ house), and the grass at several family cemeteries. A few days ago Dad wanted to cut the grass, but it was too wet. I could see his mental angst over preparing to leave town without mowing the cemetery. Eventually the grass dried, and I helped him mow it, but as I was cutting grass around my grandparents’ graves Patterson was singing in my head the whole time.

Lookout Mountain is a great song but not my favorite DBT song, but I often feel like Patterson asked the question about the family cemetery to me directly!

[beantownbubba]

For the past week or so I’ve been visiting family and friends in Virginia and preparing to go on an annual beach trip with my family, my parents, and some extended family. Since I now live 12-14 hours from my parents I see them less often, and they are aging more quickly. My dad is approaching 70 and is in great health (relatively speaking) but tires more easily than he did. Dad is retired but works part time and takes care of his yard, my aunt’s yard (was his parents’ house), and the grass at several family cemeteries. A few days ago Dad wanted to cut the grass, but it was too wet. I could see his mental angst over preparing to leave town without mowing the cemetery. Eventually the grass dried, and I helped him mow it, but as I was cutting grass around my grandparents’ graves Patterson was singing in my head the whole time.

Lookout Mountain is a great song but not my favorite DBT song, but I often feel like Patterson asked the question about the family cemetery to me directly!

Like.

[Flea]

For the past week or so I’ve been visiting family and friends in Virginia and preparing to go on an annual beach trip with my family, my parents, and some extended family. Since I now live 12-14 hours from my parents I see them less often, and they are aging more quickly. My dad is approaching 70 and is in great health (relatively speaking) but tires more easily than he did. Dad is retired but works part time and takes care of his yard, my aunt’s yard (was his parents’ house), and the grass at several family cemeteries. A few days ago Dad wanted to cut the grass, but it was too wet. I could see his mental angst over preparing to leave town without mowing the cemetery. Eventually the grass dried, and I helped him mow it, but as I was cutting grass around my grandparents’ graves Patterson was singing in my head the whole time.

Lookout Mountain is a great song but not my favorite DBT song, but I often feel like Patterson asked the question about the family cemetery to me directly!

Hey man, if you are going to be in the Tidewater area, gimme a yell!