This one came out during the marriage years, or, as I have been known to call it, "my time in the suburbs". So a lot of what happened initially for me with "Ragged Rubble" was viewed from the sidelines, so to speak.
Dubin left Double Dagger sometime after the split with Economist to go teach English outside Osaka, and Denny took over on drums. Denny sang and played guitar in Economist, who at some point became Yukon, and DD started playing less with the Charm City Art Space crowd and more with the Wham City kids, who'd started moving to town a few years before and making a hell of a racket. There was a lot more strut to this second grouping of songs. Whereas the self-titled record was jittery, "Ragged Rubble" was bold. It's centerpiece is DD's most well-known song, "Luxury Condos For The Poor", an incredibly danceable song that anticipated oligarchs laundering their money in pied a terres and generally fucking up living for everyone. In spite of it being the one record I wasn't really around for the release of, RR ends up being the one that I listen to the most. It's the record of a young band finding their footing and smashing that second record curse.
This is one of the few Double Dagger records that isn't up on their Bandcamp, so I feel fairly safe in sharing it here. Thanks for coming through for 400 posts; I'll see if I can come back for at least another 100.
