Black Light Constellations
Of Montreal: “Coquet Coquette”
This song is all about the lyrics. SO GOOD! Check it: They’re the bell of the known-all-too-well love story of an unrequited love gone astray and a heart left with the vulnerable demise of its self will, picking up every so often, but then falling back into the dark abyss of capture. It’s about the good fight … the long fight with the humorous cliches and the jingles of the lock and keys, leaving you with an emptiness only death could understand and filling you to your highest capacity. Oh, Coquet Coquette!
My favorite parts: “Coquet Coquette, you know I won’t forget how you hurt me twice to prove you were cynical. My Coquet, you are the death you are the pinnacle. With you I can only see my black light constellations and all the shit I don’t think I have a language to say. I don’t want to catch you with some other guy’s face under your eyelids. Something must be wrong – you give me emotional artifacts that can find no purchase…”
No Age – “Glitter”
It’s a song of mess, loss and wanting. What’s better: my mess, your mess, their mess. (Metaphorically speaking, of course). It doesn’t really make sense and the parts that do, or should, are fleeting. But, it’s just how it should be. It gives off the right feelings of liberation, even melancholy zoning and sadness on just the right drum counts. It’s entrancing, really – a combination of the dread of reality cushioned by what one might define as being hopeful. Nonetheless, it’s about the chase in the race to find out how long you can hold on in order to really hear it. Can you hear it? I can.
Best line: “When they take my turn to get a win, everyone is out to get you again, but I want you back underneath my skin”
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.: “Bang Bang Bang” (feat. Q-Tip and MNDR)
Hello, some of my favorite funsters! It’s exciting that all musicians don’t give in to the trend of the masses and that they still explore what their musical roots were planted for in the first place. I’ll cheers to that any day. Is this song incredible? No way. But it’s experimental and different, so I can appreciate that.
Adele: “Rollin’ In The Deep”
The soul’s siren of a mistress is back and picking the questioned wounds she healed in her album prior. Her already strong exhalations of a voice is more powerful and reaching new heights in this one. She rekindles the emotions that were left standing in “Best For Last” and “Chasing Pavements” and really hashes out what the response is. It’s about acceptance and the breaking hurt that comes with it. It’s asking “Why?” and thinking about “what could have been”. It’s beautiful, really, with the bed of a southern haunt.
A smidgen of my favorite lyrics: “The scars of your love remind me of us. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. The scars of your love, they leave me breathless. I can’t help feeling we could have had it all, rollin’ in the deep. You had my heart inside of your hand and you played it to the beat…”
Interpol: “Lights”
Where do I start? It’s brilliant, for lack of a better word. The way this song finesses you into progression with effortless transitions spares you some time to actually hear that vocal poetry behind the magic. And the guitars … oh the guitars and those drums bringing what we always thought a dark mystery might sound like – maybe even something sad and frightening. It’s just beautiful, really, all things emotional at their best. It’s a cry for help. That’s why I love it.
Lyric sesh: “All that I see, show me your ways. Teach me to meet my desires with some grace. All that I fear, don’t turn away and leave me to plead in this hole of a place what if I never break? Estuary won’t you take me far away, far away? All that I seek, please police me. I want you to police me, but keep it clean…”
Deerhunter: “Revival”
There’s a special life design I picture when I hear this song, filled with the kitsch and the concrete objects inside those honeycomb pockets in our mind- the vanguard of memories, captured in an ounce of time. Maybe it’s the feeling of flying I get. Maybe it’s the floaty “ooohs” and “ahhhhhs”. Who knows.
Best line: “Well, I am saved, I am saved and could you believe it? You won’t regret if you choose to believe it…”
Sufjan Stevens: “Futile Devices”
This short fraction of what love feels like is too much to contain in just this song, but is just enough. It’s just how it’s supposed to be … fleeting. What a perfect construction between the comfort and uneasiness … you can even feel the tension building of what might be love’s unsettling moments and the beauty underlying the change to comfort. It is what is made to be felt more than heard. The emotional definition of love in two minutes and twenty seconds. Just enough time to relive the moments of your life where love filled your body. It’s the perfect soundtrack for the vignettes that flash before you when you dream at night about those little things that mattered all along and forever.
Key lyrics: “It’s been a long, long time since I memorized your face. It’s been four hours now since I wandered through your place and when I sleep on your couch I feel very safe and when you bring the blankets, I cover up my face. I do love you. I do love you…It’s hard, so I won’t say it at all and I won’t stay very long, but you are the life I needed all along.”
Weezer: “Memories”
Dude. It’s fucken Weezer. Throw me the line of function that takes me back to the good days with my friends. Pile them on me like sugar on the flakes and let ‘em melt in my head like my favorite twin pops from the corner store in summer. Nostalgia never felt so good! Doesn’t hurt to add in the boys from jackass either.
Mr. Little Jeans: “Rescue Song” (RAC Remix)
The tendency to smoke (Marlboro or Marleys) and bob your head to the music is pretty much what I picture/do/imagine on this one. Oh, and let’s not forget the brew. Is this song even sad or happy or angry? I have no idea. The sound of the soft, overlapping, yet vanishing vocals are enough to create one’s own story to this beat. So sing whatever you think the words are … sometimes it’s more fun that way.
Women: “Eyesore”
I’m huge fan of the nostalgic ability that bands like The Morning Benders or The Drums have on me so, naturally, I have fallen in love again with “Eyesore” by Women. The chill of the echoey vocals and the strike of those few notes that the guitar begs for you to take in and remember are what make the song emotional, perhaps? Like watching a difficult ending of an old black and white movie or saying goodbye and leaving with promises for more to come, but never knowing when. It’ll pull you in and leave you hoping that it’s not ending … not just yet. You’ll want to hear it again, as you think to yourself: “Damn. I really liked that one.”
Skream feat. Sam Frank: “Where You Belong”
Clean, dubstep transitioning as smoothly as the technological voices maneuvering through those seamless, silky beats. You don’t need to do much to appreciate this one, except drink it when it pours into you. You’ll melt all over it.
Best line: “How can I feel good about this life I’m living when you’re not here right beside me, right here where you should be?”
The Tallest Man On Earth: “The Dreamer”
Right off the bat, this song takes you in completely with the deep simplicities of the love between voice and instrument. Me thinks no marriage has ever been better. The continuation and slow progression of additional instruments makes those quick insertions of sound more exciting.
Shmall kine lyrics sesh: “It’s just enough dark to see, how you’re the light over me.”
very informative post. Looking more to something like this