Tornadoes (track)
by Drive-By Truckers
Year: 2004
From the album The Dirty South (track #2)
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Tornadoes appears on the following album(s) by Drive-By Truckers:
- The Dirty South (track #2) (this album) (2004)
- It's Great To Be Alive! (track #11) (2015)
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| ! | 07/19/2026 15:59 | Exist-en-ciel | 174,920 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2026 11:33 | phmusic | 73,572 | 100/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 00:42 | daCritic | 39,541 | 75/100 |
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/05/2017 20:17 | #192076
I briefly dated a woman who loved Drive-By Truckers. She couldn't quite take this song seriously, though, especially the lines, "It [the tornado] sucked him out the window / He ain't come home again." I get that it's kind of absurd, but it's also tragic--and a sobering truth about living just about anywhere in middle America: the fact that a deadly tornado might always be just around the corner. A great song, whose instrumentation matches its subject matter perfectly, capturing the strangeness and chaos of real-life tornadoes.
