| Okkervil River – Last Love Song For Now Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song, and find it a perfect (albeit puzzling) coda to the Black Sheep Boy saga. I'm going to post a bit of the Pitchfork review of this, in the hopes of shedding some light... "He repeats the lyrics from "Missing Children", but in a different context-- not merely with a faster tempo, but also with a more foreboding gravity that has accrued meaning and significance over these seven songs. This recurrence completes a small cycle that begins with "Missing Children", as well as a larger cycle that encompasses the entire Black Sheep Boy project, one that laments the loss of possibilities as lambs become lost rams and children become "numb" adults. Okkervil River end "Last Love Song for Now" singing "over and over and over and over" until Sheff declares, "It's over." Whether that's the band's victory cry or an admission of defeat is undeterminable." I only disagree with the last sentence - I think the "over and over" repetition is triumphant; the death of the BSB cathartic. We've left the things that keep us crying, and faced away from the self-destruction and nihilism. The missing children have become found adults. |
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| The Hold Steady – Stay Positive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song really anchors the retrospective feel of the album. I especially like the reference to Massive Nights: She had a gun in her mouth And she was shootin' up at her dreams When the chaperon said that we'd been crowned The king and the queen The new line, "I knew that we'd arrived at a unified scene," is certainly a more positive take on that night. |
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| Low – Sunflower Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Pitchfork's review of this album has the line at "You bought some sweet sunflowers/ And gave in to the night." Careful listening shows that they're wrong, which is a shame, because I find that version so much more haunting. | |
| Pulley – Nothing To Lose Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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RavenSan: not police, but The Police. You know, "Roxanne," "Message in a Bottle," and so on? That being said, I don't really hear the similarity. Where's the reggae vibe? Sting's sometimes grating falsetto? |
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| Destroyer – Leopard of Honor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A Leopard of Honour is the lifetime achievement award handed out by a Swiss film festival. Wikipedia says that "the award especially denotes recognition of auteur cinema and creative and audacious filmmaking." I'll let someone else try and figure out what, if anything, that has to do with the song. |
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