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nuggetsofthefuture : Swervedriver - Sandblasted This wasn't quite the first thing I heard by Swervedriver—I'd caught "Son Of Mustang Ford" and "Pile-Up" on the local college radio station—but the "Sandblasted" video did a great job of contextualizing Swervedriver for me. It clearly presented all of the themes that would dominate their aesthetic: muscle cars, long hair, beaches, driving, noisy guitars, and a vague sense of loneliness and melancholy that they were never able to escape, no matter how fast they drove. They may hide their sadness behind the rock trappings [...]