| Aberfeldy – Summer's Gone Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I've had a couple of relationships like this... You give and give and you get back a polite "thanks but no thanks." It's easy to find yourself in a relationship of convenience... I'm finding myself listening to this song a lot since I got married. Pretty sure there's no connection there, though. ;) -Brian |
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| Teitur – Shade of a Shadow Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me, this song feels sad. Outside of the context in which I experienced it, it has significant meaning. (In the movie P.S. it's a great "outro" to a fairly meaningless song...) When I hear this song I'm reminded of those people who I love and only keep in touch enough to want to keep in touch more... One such "friend" got married recently and I played this song on the way. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to "call her" the next time I was back in town was sad... -Brian |
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| The Sundays – Summertime Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's clear the writer has been in love in a way that I never have. I love that guitar riff at the end... To me it's summer in the city; love in the heat, and a sophisticated existence where an affair of convenience is just as passionate as a life-long love. -Brian |
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| John Mayer Trio – Who Did You Think I Was? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I can't comprehend the resiliency of character it must require to retain a sense of "self" when celebrity is poured on you like it has been on John. I heard him remark of the topic in an interview "I surround myself with people much smarter and better than myself" and I knew it to be total crap. John is a nice boy, ladies man, starving artist and millionaire all packed into a 6 foot, blues dripping hunk of a housecat. This song is a coy blues-rock anthem; a commentary on celebrity and the struggle to define ones self... at least that's what John wants you to think. "You've got my number but I always knew the score..." means I'm in control, but enjoy it, you'll like the ride! -Brian |
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| John Mayer Trio – Come When I Call Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Pure Blues. Chasin' tail has never been made a more indifferent sentiment! It says "I know you're avoiding me but it's really bullshit. Sooner or later we're going to get down to it so stop fighting." I'm so glad John stopped fighting his impulses... "Come Back to Bed" was SOOO close. THIS is how blues in the new century should start. -Brian |
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| Metric – Succexy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The use of "sexy" has come to mirror that which used to be defined as "powerful." While it's true that sex can be used as power, the notion of sex equaling power is now a commonplace western truism. Seymore Hersh (A writer for the New Yorker) wrote in his report on the Special Forces landing in Afghanistan that the staged nature of the attacks made for exciting television footage, calling it "sexy stuff." What is sexy about guns? What is sexy about blood spilled over tactical targets and political leaders? The power which these images convey has been equated with the power sex holds over the same men (mostly) in peacetime. The disappointing underlying failure in this paradox is that the very mechanism by which our only information about wartime is conveyed (the media) is served by making this comparison. Inconstani hit the nail on the head; Sex sells. That which can be made sexy or associated with sex will draw the consumer to what could normally be regarded as morbid, disturbing and moraly corrupt. There are less damaging examples of this cultural simile in the advertising world. The Europeans spearheaded the sex sells movement but did (and does) so with a certain responsibility to it's patrons; the West, unfortunately, has shed it's intimidation of responsibility in this way and promotes (gamourizes) sex. The good-natured tongue-in-cheek nature is gone; sex is power. -Brian |
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