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From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
Subject | Re: laziest lyrics ever / FoW? |
Date | Thu, 31 May 2007 08:14:25 +0100 |
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I'm scratching my head on this one as well. Perhaps "Revolving Dora" and
"Planet of Weed" are slightly below par, but the rest is really top notch.
Mike.
>From: "Craig Leve" <snapcracklepopster@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, "Jim Cox" <jimcox63@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: laziest lyrics ever?
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:56:19 -0700
>
>Jim,
>
>Examples please?
>
>No album has seen more play in my family this year. Boo-hiss on the folks
>for whom familiarity has bred a little contempt, or the milder "been there,
>done that". I find many, many inspired moments, both musical and lyrical on
>the new one. "New Routine" gives me chills for it's combo wollop on almost
>every play. And I absolutely adore the moment in "I-95" when the singer has
>utterly romanticized the banal drive for the 'cinematic' landscape, till a
>van pull rights in front of him. Not huge themes, to be sure, but smart
>stuff that doesn't waste my time. And well, "Someone to Love" is just a
>stone FoW classic.
>
>I'm not sure where "Traffic and Weather" will fall relative to the rest of
>their catalog but FoW's bar is much higher than their so-called peers. As
>an
>album, I may prefer it to "Welcome Interstate Managers" - which includes
>many of my favorites, but also includes more songs I almost always skip
>than
>any other album. I always thought that album should have ended with "Fire
>Island". Oddly enough I feel similarly about the closing of this album, tho
>- but it's only the last song, "Seatbacks and Traytables" that tends to get
>ditched. I greedily enjoy the rest of the album song for song more than any
>album since their first (though Utopia Parkway is a pretty amazing ride,
>too).
>
>Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "love my fair-haired boys or get
>off the list" sorta guys, but at least a few examples would help me
>appreciate your criticism.
>
>thanks,
>
>-craig
>
>On 5/30/07, Jim Cox <jimcox63@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>The new FOW record should come with a Lazy Lyrics warning label. What
>>the heck happened?
>>
>>On 5/30/07, synthhtnys@comcast.net <synthhtnys@comcast.net> wrote:
>> > *You might want to watch their DVD.... They mention that line and also
>>mention how genuinely surprised they are whenever someone comments on it
>>as
>>they meant it to be funny and thought it was obvious.
>> >
>> > Great band, actually... I just re-aquainted myself with their stuff,
>>they wrote several excellent pop tunes... current favorite: She's my girl,
>>their attempt at psychedlia...
>> >
>> >
>> > -------------- Original message --------------
>> > From: <drewmacdonald@ca.rr.com>
>> >
>> > > I've talked here before about how hackneyed lyrics can ruin an
>>otherwise-good
>> > > song for me (there's still no faster way for a songwriter to lose my
>>respect
>> > > than to rhyme "change" with "rearrange") but I still have to smile
>>when this
>> > > Turtles song comes on:
>> > >
>> > > "Eleanor, gee, I think you're swell/
>> > > And you really do me well/
>> > > You're my pride and joy, et cetera."
>> > >
>> > > Not that Kaylan and Volman ever took their work too seriously, but
>>"et
>>cetera?"
>> > > That's the best they could come up with?
>> > >
>> > > Whenever I hear that, it puts me in mind of Martin Short's elderly
>>Tin
>>Pan Alley
>> > > songwriter character, who would claim to be able to write a song on
>>the spot,
>> > > but failed miserably whenever challenged to do so.
>> > >
>> > > Gimme a G, a bouncy G,
>> > > Drew
>> > > np: William Pears - BIG BANG
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ---- Ellen Giloy wrote:
>> > >
>> > > =============
>> > > I'll pick up the thread on the new Ike Reilly. I've been a fan since
>> > > > "Salesmen and Racists," and there's nothing better than a live Ike
>> > > > Reilly performance (his Thanksgiving Eve shows here in Minneapolis
>> > > have
>> > > > long since become another holiday tradition). However, that said, I
>> > > > really wasn't a fan of his last release.
>> > > >
>> > > > Now, I'm happy to say that I'm back on the bus with the release of
>> > > "We
>> > > > belong to the Staggering Evening." He found the rawk again (as my
>> > > > friends and I like to say) and I think songs like "Valentine's Day
>>in
>> > > > Juarez" and "Fish Plant Uprising" are among the best work he's put
>> > > out
>> > > > so far.
>> > > >
>> > > > OK. I'll go back to lurking now. Take care!
>> > > > ~Ellen
>> > >
>> > >
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