| Califone – Bottles & Bones (Shade and Sympathy) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song reminds me of the lifestyle of someone who has lived to excess far too long, perhaps OD'ing a few too many times on coke and drinking themselves to blackout every night. Like he realizes his chance to live has passed, and he's lamenting what he's become and what could have been. The imagery is superb - the coked out whores with bloody noses, the decrepit Lincoln with one headlight (the engine is willing, but the sheet metal is weak - perhaps even a metaphor for himself), the idea of a cold, desolate, industrialized Americana, and a general sense of self-pity and longing. | |
| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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@ Kuckus then explain to me how someone partially sells out.... |
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| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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@Kuckus that's not what i was getting at - what i meant was it's good to see that they haven't let Sony ruin them - all too often a band signs on w/ a major label and their music loses everything that made them great, as the band gives into pressure from the powers that be to produce a more "marketable" sound. so yeah, it's good to see that 7 years with Sony/Epic hasn't corrupted them - their sound has changed some, and the production values are better, but their music is still creative and unique. Next time read things over a couple of times and make sure you understand what you just read before you open your mouth ;) i promise it's better that way |
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| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is one of my three favorite songs on the new album, the other two being Fly Trapped in a Jar and Education. Parting of the Sensory came off to me as a continuation of the theme in Gravity Rides Everything, just a bit more emphatically expressed. e.g. "as fruit drops, flesh it sinks" vs. "someday you will die somehow and somethings gonna steal your carbon" - to me, it seems like he's saying that bad shit happens, but so does good shit, and in the grand scheme of things, what happens to you doesn't really matter, and everything is going to carry on like it's supposed to, whether your life sucks or not. It's kind of comforting in a weird way. it's good to see that even after 7 years with Sony/Epic, they haven't completely sold out yet... :) |
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