My Top 1000 Songs #857: Lying In State

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

The Verlaines were among the New Zealand indie bands on the Flying Nun label I got really into back in the mid-80s through early 90s. Their sorta arty, offbeat garage rock was a little more challenging than the more straightforward (yet still plenty skewed) rock/pop of the Clean, the Chills, and the Bats, my go-to faves, but their long career is still peppe...