Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Badness, Lyrics.
"Thanks for taking me on a one-way trip to the sun."
--Englebert Humperdinck, "After the Lovin'" (written by Richie Adams and Alan Bernstein)
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Albums, Lyrics.
I've listened to the new Andrew Bird four times today, and some of it's sticking, while some of it sounds like ordinary indie singer-songwriter fare to me; I'll definitely be giving it more attention in the next week.
The only thing I have to note right now is that when he sings "We'll fight, we'll fight", it sounds to me like he's declaring "Whale fight! Whale fight!" It doesn't help that he goes on to sing "they'll fight, they'll fight", which rhymes with "whale fight".
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Lyrics.
Despite my love of words, I'm not very lyric-driven in my music taste. So I didn't imagine that when I finally got around to (briefly) writing about the still-undernoticed (but opening for Morrissey; see her if you can) Kristeen Young, it would be to talk about her lyrics, which is not by a long shot the most arresting thing about her music.
But I recently picked up her fifth? sixth? album, The Orphans, and it has passages that have made me laugh and made me bark (ha!) with appreciation:
Before the drummer can say, "It's gay"
It's my baby.
Before the producer can take parts away,
I'll play all day. Hey!
This is my song I love
It just how it is, right now.
You should call yourself "Lucky Duck"
to hear it at all.--"Before"
Middle America can't handle this, right?
Middle America's conservative, right?
Kansas City's where the problem is, right?
But you don't even know what state it's in, right?--"Under a Landlocked Moon"