(sorry i’m gonna do 2)
this entire album is incredibly bonkers and sort of like being high on stimulants while being dragged around town by someone else who is even higher on stimulants…
but THIS song in particular has this feeling of a bombastic live show in hell being MC’d by a sports announcer from the 1920s
May 5, 2024
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From “Dots and Loops” which is an all timer for me.
A song about trompe l’oeil artwork (“trick the eye”) that maybe isn’t about that at all - at face value, it seems more likely to be about seeking simultaneously to deceive while being open and honest about the fact you are deceiving… an “it’s complicated” relationship song?
If you dig Stereolab, try to dig up some McCarthy tunes, Tim Gane’s first band (featured on the old C86 cassette which is also worth tracking down although you can hear it in full on the YouTubes). The left wing politics are similar and on tracks like these you hear them breaking away from the Smiths-jangle sound of the moment toward what they would become: https://open.spotify.com/track/5M4UHn0I5O9xvgIaiEhzFY?si=dHKv5WcHTES1gdVAvCdxSw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5PptRExr0j579qu7OrCxqt
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“You lock the door / And throw away the key / There's someone in my head but it's not me.”
The chaotic laughter at the end gets me every time, conjuring the image of someone completely losing control.
To me, the track symbolizes the yin/yang nature of beauty and chaos.
The band members have also acknowledged that the song was inspired by their former bandmate Syd Barrett’s mental health decline.
This short doc on YouTube about Barrett is worth a watch
https://youtu.be/zQgNjjmTKqA
Nov 8, 2024
I’m having eye issues and no one knows what they’re doing, it’s incredibly frustrating. I left my new surgeon SO mad no one had told me I need 2 surgeries and 6 months between and MAYBE it’ll be ok .. maybe another ?
The urge came from nowhere ~ I angry walked uphill for a while and it’s my rock angst go to again (first time I heard it live I thought it was ‘I’ve been taking Prozac on the hour’ - and it’s actually cold bath)
Apr 13, 2024
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sincerity is cool, caring is cool, you are all cool
Feb 28, 2024
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the first thing to be said is that this recommendation applies equally to everyone
the next thing to be said is that you have, inevitably, been suffering from a cocktail of depression and anxiety for more than a decade, and this has made you incredibly tired
what you need is to make NYE plans with a good friend you haven't seen in years; she will bring you out to the club and it will be fuckin rad; you'll buy some cute clothes and she'll do your makeup, despite these not being things you really ever do, and you'll forget how much you typically disdain your appearance for one night
next, you're going to have to just read for awhile, books and essays and youtube comments and text messages
after enough reading, you'll have your own thoughts and questions, and you'll inevitably see someone else asking the question "am i trans?"
reading this question will naturally lead to you asking yourself: "am i trans?"
the answer is yes
at this point, you have transitioned into a girl, and everything else is just showing off; decide on a new name; get a therapist and a doctor who are supportive; pump your body full of the hormones it needs; get some cute new clothes and burn your old shit; ask for help picking out and doing your makeup
stop treating your body like a shipping container for your sad brain; transform it into the hot girl your brain already knows you are
Feb 28, 2024
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Aug 8, 2024