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| From | Paul Myers <paulm@shaw.ca> |
| Subject | FOW thread |
| Date | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:16:49 -0800 |
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I notice today that Joshua Micah Marshall's "Talking Points Memo"
blog quotes FOW's "Valley Winter Song" in full today.
I want to second the notion the "The Girl I Can't Forget" was a
coulda shoulda been hit.
I get what I call the "pop shiver", that tingling of goosebumps, when
I hear that song. And damn if the lyric isn't just the right kind of
clever, i.e. not intellectually show offy but rather serving an
emotional intelligence (ableit in a disposable pop way!)
And "Hey Julie" IS very much the kind of pop song that Paul Simon
would have written around the time of "Mardi Gras", "Kodachrome" or
even "Trying to Keep The Customer Satisfied".
And does anyone here feel the "pop shiver" when they hear that sad
beautiful "Troubled Times" ? Who hasn't gone through a long tormented
relationship, and then after you get through the hard times, you look
back and say "what was THAT all about?".
These glimpses of real emotional connection in FOW's music makes me
wish more people listened to whole albums, but who am I really
preaching to? I don't have the time either. Still, that's why we
talk here isn't it?
We are the new radio. Happy Myspacing and iTuning. Death to DualDisc.
Paul
(note: this was not written by Lefsetz, really.)
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