I agree, this song is poetry. Normally I wouldnt use such a feminine word for music, but this song is beautiful, there is no other way to describe it.
I think, like many mgb songs, it is based around an oxymoron. I think the idea is that if something is old enough to be missed, can it still be considered new?
Now, I am guessing that the song has to do with something which started as fresh and pure being tainted and ultimately destroyed by overall monotony.
Of course, I dont think this song was written about a specific event, it was most likely written as a general application so as to relate to the most people. I think it is unlikely that the song has anything to do with the new wave of music. Matthew Good's songs are usually about politics and human relationships, society etc. they are about people, it is very uncommon his songs are actually about music.
The drowning in a bathtub and geting laid in lawn chairs etc. are all symbolic of reaching out for something new to break away from something which is wearing you down. These reaching's are all perverted or tragic, which symbolizes being punished in today's society for breaking from the norm.
Same thing with missing movies about losing. In real life people dont always win, and that is one of the things that keeps us sane. In the song, matthew good is being driven insane by all the happy endings, and it has come to the point where he is reaching out for a loss or a tragic end.
When he says
"hearing the scratches on my long plays
or just the part that sound OK"
he is talking about hearing the scratches on his LP records (Long play records) which is what people consider to be one of the flaws in vinyl record technology. This has been corrected with CDs, but matthew good wants it back. He is tired of everything always being perfect and he longs for something which is more raw, more left to chance, more real(miss new wave and real intent).
When he says
"or just the parts where it's a-okay" and "or just the part that sound OK"
he is simply supporting his idea of monotomy. Even when losing is put into a movie, or when there are scratches in a song, they are there intentionally, they still serve the same general purpose which he is trying to escape. He doesnt want something which is real enough to get someone's point across, he wants something which is just real for the sake of being real, something which does not serve anyone's agenda, it just happens because it happens.
Anyways, thats my opinion. What do you guys think?
I agree, this song is poetry. Normally I wouldnt use such a feminine word for music, but this song is beautiful, there is no other way to describe it.
I think, like many mgb songs, it is based around an oxymoron. I think the idea is that if something is old enough to be missed, can it still be considered new?
Now, I am guessing that the song has to do with something which started as fresh and pure being tainted and ultimately destroyed by overall monotony.
Of course, I dont think this song was written about a specific event, it was most likely written as a general application so as to relate to the most people. I think it is unlikely that the song has anything to do with the new wave of music. Matthew Good's songs are usually about politics and human relationships, society etc. they are about people, it is very uncommon his songs are actually about music.
The drowning in a bathtub and geting laid in lawn chairs etc. are all symbolic of reaching out for something new to break away from something which is wearing you down. These reaching's are all perverted or tragic, which symbolizes being punished in today's society for breaking from the norm.
Same thing with missing movies about losing. In real life people dont always win, and that is one of the things that keeps us sane. In the song, matthew good is being driven insane by all the happy endings, and it has come to the point where he is reaching out for a loss or a tragic end.
When he says "hearing the scratches on my long plays or just the part that sound OK" he is talking about hearing the scratches on his LP records (Long play records) which is what people consider to be one of the flaws in vinyl record technology. This has been corrected with CDs, but matthew good wants it back. He is tired of everything always being perfect and he longs for something which is more raw, more left to chance, more real(miss new wave and real intent).
When he says "or just the parts where it's a-okay" and "or just the part that sound OK"
he is simply supporting his idea of monotomy. Even when losing is put into a movie, or when there are scratches in a song, they are there intentionally, they still serve the same general purpose which he is trying to escape. He doesnt want something which is real enough to get someone's point across, he wants something which is just real for the sake of being real, something which does not serve anyone's agenda, it just happens because it happens.
Anyways, thats my opinion. What do you guys think?