Red Mosquito

knee tunes wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I've found that there's really no telling when any given component of a song is going to pop out and register with me in some significant way, positive or negative. "Music" and "lyrics" are too reductive a means of analyzing music for me -- "music" encompasses a plethora of individual components in and of itself (rhythm, dynamic, the timbre of each instrument), as do "lyrics" (the meanings of the words, the phonetic effect of the rhymes, subtler things like phrasing and inflection), each of these things perfectly capable of succeeding or failing on its own terms. I think most of the time the music vs. lyrics debate is really a "gut reaction" vs. "analysis" debate, as the primary argument against the lyrics-first camp always seems to be that they care too much about something they shouldn't care about, which is silly. Everything that's a part of the music is there for consumption, and some folks are just sensitive to certain ingredients. It's part of what makes the glorious tapestry of music appreciation such a joy.

It's been true for a long time now but I'd like to officially go on record as saying that Kevin Davis is RM's greatest asset.

you're just tickled by the phrase "glorious tapestry" Joey, admit it

chewm wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is waaaay better than Happy When I'm Crying.

Whale Song is great, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

I dont get the love for Happy When I'm Crying.

theplatypus wrote:I tend towards the "it's fine" group, because I enjoy listening to Jack do his thing but it's not a particularly compelling composition. This also applies to "Happy When I'm Crying".

durdencommatyler wrote:

chewm wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is waaaay better than Happy When I'm Crying.

Whale Song is great, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

I dont get the love for Happy When I'm Crying.

Oh man, I fucking love it. I think it's their best "quirky" song.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

chewm wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is waaaay better than Happy When I'm Crying.

Whale Song is great, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

I dont get the love for Happy When I'm Crying.

Oh man, I fucking love it. I think it's their best "quirky" song.

It's one of their best songs without any qualifier.

Strat wrote:I love eds backup vocals in whale song.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

chewm wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is waaaay better than Happy When I'm Crying.

Whale Song is great, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

I dont get the love for Happy When I'm Crying.

Oh man, I fucking love it. I think it's their best "quirky" song.

It's one of their best songs without any qualifier.

Thank you.

bodysnatcher wrote:using the sample at the beginning of Push Me Pull Me gets me everything

chewm wrote:Whale Song is fantastic.

durdencommatyler wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is fantastic.

It's no Happy When I'm Crying. But, yeah, it's cool.

chewm wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

chewm wrote:Whale Song is fantastic.

It's no Happy When I'm Crying. But, yeah, it's cool.

I listened to HWIC today and liked it a lot better than I remembered but its still not as good.

BurtReynolds wrote:The singer's theory about whales is really dumb. He has no science to back that up.

durdencommatyler wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The singer's theory about whales is really dumb. He has no science to back that up.

My friend 'Bret' and I were at a Decemberists concert in Lawrence KS a few years back. Colin Meloy was prepping the audience on how to react during The Mariner's Revenge song. They had a cardboard whale and they wanted the audience to scream as if being chewed to death by the whale. My friend, 'Bret' yelled out "WHALES DON'T HAVE TEETH."

That shut Colin Meloy right up, I'll tell you. And when the time came to sing the lyric, "I must have slipped between its teeth" Colin mumbled and glared at my friend.

It was amazing and to this day remains my favorite story about whales.