By now you’ve heard “War On Drugs: Suck My Cock”, the seven-minute Mark Kozelek ballad on his ongoing altercation with The War On Drugs at the Ottawa Folk Fest. And if you have not, then we direct you to the Sun Kil Moon website.
“War On Drugs: Suck My Cock” leaves no event unexplored in turning the feud/misunderstanding into a song. Kozelek dedicates each verse to a different moment in his interaction with The War On Drugs and even takes a moment to address his request that the “hillbillies” at his show “shut the fuck up,” going so far as to call out the journalist who broke the story as “some spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat.” It’s everything you’d want in a song about The War On Drugs, including but not limited to The War On Drugs being the whitest band Kozelek has ever heard, Kozelek telling himself to go fuck himself, and the poignant observation that Bridge & Tunnel folk really love The War On Drugs.
So how did Twitter respond to this momentous release?
Mark Kozelek really the whitest pot calling the kettle the whitest, huh?
— Claire Lobenfeld (@clairevlo) October 7, 2014
“I Think I’ll Watch Some TV, Or Maybe Not. Maybe I’ll just go to Subway.” – Rejected Mark Kozelek song titles. — J. Edward Keyes (@keyescore) October 7, 2014
“suck my cock war on drugs” may be song of the year.
— el-p (@therealelp) October 7, 2014
Omfg the layered vocals on war on drugs: suck my cock are sublime — eeehhh (@krisdfa) October 7, 2014
this fake kozelek/war on drugs feud is more important to p4k than the time morrissey might have had twitter but then it turned out he didn’t
— chris cantalini (@gorillavsbear) October 7, 2014
“Benji died of age, that was the end of his chapter. And that’s the dog you chose to name your album after?” – War on Drugs, “Ether” — Ian Cohen (@en_cohen) October 3, 2014
I literally aspire to have the opposite career trajectory as mark kozelek re: dickhead actions to great music ratio
— It’s Ricky Eat Acid! (@Rickyeatacid) October 7, 2014
Hi I’m from six hours in the future and I’ve returned to reassure you that nobody can remember Mark Kozelek’s long internet fart. — SOME LIKE IT OTT (@shallowrewards) October 7, 2014
pumpkin spice mark kozelek
— Brandon Stosuy (@brandonstosuy) October 6, 2014
