| The Books – Venice Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i read in an interview with nick it's a Dali sample. | |
| The Books – An Animated Description of Mr. Maps. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song seems, to me, to perfectly articulate the mindset and - more importantly - feelings i've experienced on LSD. while i'm not saying nick wrote this song about LSD, explicitly, it so perfectly captures the experience that i feel it must have had some influence. most of nick's lines give me this expression, although there's some that i can only fit into my hypothesis very abstractly (which either means i'm interpreting the song wrong, or i'm not thinking about those lines in the right sense.) for example: 'he felt lost, but he felt pretty intensely good' this line, especially the way good is emphasized, rings so true. you feel lost; you be come cognizant of so much more. it can be overwhelming: whereas in a 'normal,' 'sober,' mindset, you have a train of thought where you think of something, which branches off automatically into a path (or two) and becomes a train of thought, on LSD i've found that one thought immediately branches off in every direction. it's like dropping food coloring in water. the moment the drop hits the water, it 'explodes' and fills up the water/container. your mind becomes a confusing, yet insightful and profound mess. meanwhile, physically, you're filled with an extreme body high. on LSD and other hallucinogens - magic mushrooms are the kings of this - it almost feels as if you have a radiating sphere in your belly that radiates an intense 'GOOD' feeling. that's the only way i know how to describe it, and what's more, it's what i used to describe the feeling way before i ever heard of the books. "and he woke up screaming have dreamed of a color he had never seen before." this line can be taken either metaphorically or literally. the meaning is similar, either way. you have LSD act as the catalyst to either a different method of interpreting and connecting two colors to make a new color or to see an entirely new spectrum. "he had no trouble recognizing patterns in the most delicate arrays of tangled lines..." i know that feeling. like i said, LSD can act as the catalyst to an entirely new way of interpreting information. you don't see a mess of jumbled lines anymore. patterns become apparent and obvious. the second part of that line, 'nefarious things,' doesn't quite fit in with my theory, like the first and second (maps) stanza - which i will revisit later. loosely, you could say the nefarious thing is of course, taking the LSD, but the soundclip leads me to believe nick's not referring to this. the next verse, however, is good evidence. high doses of LSD cause synesthesia - which is something everyone should experience! the road trip part confabulates my theory, though. sure, people do take LSD on roadtrips, but its a bit of a stretch to assume that Maps is trippin' on his roadtrip... finally, the last verse is very reminscent of LSD. LSD is a great tool for self introspection, but it's easily to misled yourself into worthless self introspection - this i know from many anecdotes and long chats with close friends. quixotically - not practical. as said before, the inner child is pure psychoanalytical jargon. sure, your experiences get stored in your subconscious mind, but those are only experiences. they're not mindsets. (however, similar experiences tend to group themselves together, but that's a topic for another day. i could write tomes on the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious, but that's a talk for another day. it's fascinating and i'd love to explain it, so if you'd like me to explain this [it does have relevance to the song, it's just a lot more to branch of into] let me know.) so here, maps, fooled by LSD, is doing something that's not practical, even though he thinks otherwise. he's looking for something that doesn't exist. and the last line: "he was embrangled and enmeshed in something far too loud to comprehend." yadda yadda, read above. hmm, i'm getting too tired to articulate myself coherently, so i'll end this for now and get on with my analysis later. i'm actually planning to do some hallucinogenic introspection later today, so i'll have to think about this song during. |
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| Modest Mouse – Head South Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the backup singer is calvin johnson, founder of k records and head of dub narcotic studio, where modest mouse recorded some of their earlier stuff. he's a unique guy, to say the least. i had a chat with him a while ago and he's fucking awesome. (i went to one of his shows, and he was chilling over by the merch table, so i struck up a conversation) his vocal style can take a while to get used to, but he's still an amazing guy. check out the halo benders - it's built to spill with calvin johnson. i recommend the album 'god don't make no junk.' the backup singer is nicole johnson (no relation.) at first i never really listened to this song; the beginning totally ruined it for me. but put it on the other day, and the chorus is so fucking amazing. it blows my mind every time i hear it. the thing is, it's hard for me to listen to this song knowing it was written by isaac. this song seems to concern someone selling out, in one way, shape, or form, and yet, look at isaac now. i'm sure if 1996/1997 isaac saw 2008 isaac now, he'd be disgusted. shit, he put it best himself: oh, what a drag oh, what a backward scheme! for the record, i'm not bashing on the fact that their sound has changed, per se - it's moreso the fact that as soon as they were picked up by a major label, their sound changed pretty drastically; they slowly got more poppy and lost the grit and the attitude that made them one of the best bands of all time. i've listened to the most recent albums, and hey, there are some good songs on there! definitely. but it's hard to know that the same mind that came up with 'the lonesome crowded west' and 'this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about' came up with 'we were dead before the ship even sank.' |
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| Modest Mouse – Whenever I Breathe Out, You Breathe In (Positive/Negative) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i've seen a view videos of live shows, and he definitely says, "our feelings are positive/negative." | |
| Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Oops, forgot a little bit. My favorite part of the song is the second part, the parts about college and coming clean, because it sounds like he's been knocked down and kicked so many times, and now he's tired of taking it, so he's going to stand up for himself. It's just so real, and it shows how shitty most music is these days, because Modest Mouse is such a little known band (at least at this point), and people listen to all the crap, when brilliance like this is sitting alone in a music store, watching people lap up the new sell-out band's new album." that just broke my heart, haha |
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