Amazing song. Best or maybe second best on the album and top 10 of all Soul Asylum songs, maybe higher.
I find this to be a social statement against the 1980s pop culture and technology. While the rest of this album attempted to break into the mainstream, this song was far from him, although it did have some pop hooks. I think the ending versus tell everything:
"Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change
Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change"
It was a statement that so many things from the 1980s, whether liberal politics, underground rock, etc., was so good, yet it was faceless and meaningless to everyone else, but Pirner was asking it to never change, don't "try to save face."
"There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away"
Basically, you missed it....
Unfortunately, Soul Asylum did change and their next album broke through, although it still was great....
Amazing song. Best or maybe second best on the album and top 10 of all Soul Asylum songs, maybe higher.
I find this to be a social statement against the 1980s pop culture and technology. While the rest of this album attempted to break into the mainstream, this song was far from him, although it did have some pop hooks. I think the ending versus tell everything:
"Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable I know this might sound strange, don't ever change
Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change"
It was a statement that so many things from the 1980s, whether liberal politics, underground rock, etc., was so good, yet it was faceless and meaningless to everyone else, but Pirner was asking it to never change, don't "try to save face."
"There was a time and there was a place For your face and for your race but it's been swept away"
Basically, you missed it....
Unfortunately, Soul Asylum did change and their next album broke through, although it still was great....