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| Bon Iver – Beth/Rest Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Have to agree with jewdiful on this one... people are really getting hung up on the 80's styles used on Beth/Rest. TRUE, the 80's were a really schmaltzy musical period, especially when this sound was coloring most music coming out of that era, and most anything you were exposed to had to go through the filter of the corporate music machine. BUT- I'm sometimes surprised when I hear a track come on the radio by, say, Bruce Hornsby, at how much raw talent lay below all those overproduced layers of musical polish. To Quote the band Metric here, I think what Bon Iver is doing here is in a way playing this song "campfire style" to see if it holds up without the perfect musical backdrop. Most do that by just playing a song unplugged- Bon Iver is doing the opposite by covering it in those schmaltzy 80's sounds that still obviously make most of us cringe, and seeing if the sheer beauty and strength of the song shines through. I personally think it does. It's a powerhouse. |
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| Gayngs – The Last Prom On Earth Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Like much of the rest of this album, this song is total irony, kids. Quasi sentimental soft teenage 80's pop. It's just supposed to make you smile because it's so cheesy. |
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| The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song seems to be about a trip back home to a place you never really fit in, or saw as dead end but found something that you didn't expect when you returned. Being carried back to Ohio "in a swarm of bees" seems to indicate that they didn't want to go back, anticipating something unpleasant or emotionally painful, but they felt obliged to go for some reason. The old reasons for why you left are still there- everyone seems to be tied up in debt "owe money, to the money I owe" or have outright lost thier homes in a depressed economy "The floors are falling out from everybody I know". Nonetheless everyone has built families in your absence, maintained thier ties to family while you were off living your life somewhere else "I never married but Ohio don't remember me". On this return it seems that they met someone in thier hometown (or brought someone back with them) and they're falling in love "Stand up straight at the foot of your love... I never thought about love when I thought about home" being around all the familial love, the depth of their roots and this "blood buzz" is intoxicating. |
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