edie brickell to thread.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
And I turned round and there you go!
this line doesn't fit well into the verse... it seems to me...
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
crunk foxes
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the free concert is tonight, Am.
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
RYE
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/su/07/03/beer-rye-bread-su-1589348-l.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bellewood-gardens.com/Rye%20Bread_1.jpg
I CAN TOTALLY SEE ROBIN PECKNOLD IN THE CRUST
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
butter churning is so hot right now
― velko, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
jordan's concert is tonight, the fleet foxes are tomorrow (the 18th)
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I thought you meant in Chicago. It looks like Fleet Foxes are playing a free show in Chicago tonight, a free show in Madison tomorrow, and then coming back to Chicago on Saturday for Pitchfork...?
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No matter how many caveats are given y'all pretend not to have sorted out the "lyrics on paper" thing, but I will continue to post bits I like in the full knowledge that everyone will have more fun going "god that's terrible," as if similar bands are doing anything better -- whatevs
The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow. The "there you go" bit breaks meter because it's set on a chord change. The follow/swallow is a nice internal rhyme that I appreciate because the unnecessary rhyme ("swallowed") is a better and more interesting word there than most alternatives. "White snow red as strawberries in the summertime" rolls around well in the mouth and adds a seasonal opposition to the white/red -- whatever, y'all, most everything in there locks together really neatly, if you ask me, but maybe I'm just being over-reminded of a scene in Les Enfants Terrible involving a snowball with a rock inside it.
Amateurist, they do a lot of harmony singing, which I think you might like. Some of the harmonies are interestingly constructed, some more conventional but still nice. (And it's mildly interesting to hear a band like this pay lots of attention to doing multi-part harmonies well instead of just scrounging other, lamer "roots" affectations -- they genuinely sound good singing their harmonies slow and a capella)
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
nah
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
;)
:/
The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow.
Yeah, I got that.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
fully true tho that it works better in the ear than on the page, if that is the comparison, as i have just heard this on their myspace dot com
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw these guys a bit before this micro-blowup and they were impressive -- the singing especially, yes. the songs were catchy and memorable hearing them once, live, so they must be doing something right and it's not surprising they are getting buzz. they were obviously going for that minor-key t-bone burnett style space-country and they nailed it. i always appreciate a band who orchestrates things well, and there was plenty of reverb and purposeful echo-y empty space instead of a lot of generic strumming with a pedal steel on top or whatever.
― goole, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i should add here FWIW, i like these guys okay! their voices are great, songs are cool even if i don't care for their lyrics. but i don't care about lyrics that much.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
basically these guys make me feel old which i am cool with feeling/being! but not via them haha ha
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
if i was me as i was in 2000 today then i wld be all into this and butter churning
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
it works better in the ear than on the page
now what'd I JUST say?
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait sorry i misread you, je suis desolee
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
d'accord
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Quand on est ensemble...
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
oui, mais moi...
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
why would anyone ever say 'wear a beard'?? unless this is a british thing to say, in which case, carry on being british or whatever
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
He wears his whiskers long She wears her hair in a bun etc.
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
wears GROWS wears PUTS
― Will M., Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, just like that classic song, "if you're going to San Francisco / be sure to PUT some flowers in your hair"
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Um that's not the same thing at all!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Am I seriously going to have to get out a dictionary and/or copies of 19th-century literature to convince you guys this usage exists?
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
No, I'm just being a dick
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha so am I, kinda. (Jay-Z says "wears her hair in a twist!") It's totally archaic, but I really do like the use of "wear" for styling decisions, including hair growths -- wear your jeans tight, wear your hair long, wear side-whiskers, wear a beard
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
wear your heart on your sleeve, wear your fingers to the bone, wear a point into the ground, wear out a welcome
― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i have just been french-english exchanging and in this talk often turns to discussions of the idiomatic and grammatically weird or archaic when trying to find correct translations - it is funny but also confusing because yeah maybe the wear a beard thing etc is right even if only nabisco and people in the 19thC use it
language so crazy
― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
ok but if she has already put her hair in a bun she is wearing her hair in a bun.
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 18 July 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link