Midnight Cowboy

When I'm winding down in the evening, I find instrumentals to be a relaxing way to leave the chaos of the day behind.  Naturally, Patton has this area covered as well.  Rounding out the album Angel Dust, and also found on FNM's Songs to Make Love To (perhaps a nice accompaniment to the Lovage album discussed in the previous post?), is a cover of English composer John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy".

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman star in the 1969 must-see, movie classic of the same name.  It's the only X-rated movie to ever win an Academy Award (this was later changed to an "R" rating without editing the original film, which got it's "X" rating based on it's drug and sexual content).  Patton turns to his melodica to cover this particular tune, with the rest of the band slowly joining in crescendo. When not opening shows on their most recent tour with "Woodpecker from Mars" (another great instrumental that Roddy Bottum knocks out of the park on the keyboards), or Peaches and Herb's "Reunited", the band would quietly take the stage as Patton alone starts the set off with this instrumental.  A part of me wants to buy a melodica simply to learn how to play this song on it, thought I doubt I'd ever make it sound as beautiful as this.