It's slower than frozen molasses and eight minutes long, but there's a certain general air of gloomy inevitability that enables The Pogues' "And The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" to reach its conclusion much faster than you'd think.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)