The Comedy of Errors: Vertigo - Rocket V (13 June 1992)

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Taken from Vertigo’s second album, Ventriloquist, Rocket V is an entertaining hybrid of Seattle-esque riffs and Happy Flowers-like whinging.  A more suitable title for the track would be Insomnia because the track is essentially a litany of things that are keeping singers Jared Aos and Gene Tangren awake.  The list includes cold temperatures, noisy children, the person sharing their bed (“Just lie there quietly/and close your eyes”) and a freight train which passes the house at 2am.  This may be the Rocket V of the title.  I also suspect that the band may have seen My Cousin Vinny, which was released in the Spring of 1992, before they wrote and recorded Rocket V.

For more background on the work of Vertigo, I can recommend this excellent guide by Mark Prindle.



Videos courtesy of Irresponsableful (Vertigo) and vh602 (My Cousin Vinny)

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