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5 songs I've been listening to in... the past hour or so! My planning skillz, be amazed at them.
Imitosis, by Andrew Bird
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I always think of this as a Doctor Who song. Yes, yes, we're all agreed that Handlebars is The Doctor Who song, but this can be Yet Anther Doctor Who song, fair? It even has "Doctor" in its lyrics!
(And if you are not a DW fan, do not worry, I am sure you have someone sciencey in your fandoms to whom it applies.)
He's keeping busy
Yeah, he's bleeding stones
With his machinations and his palindromes
It was anything but hear the voice
Anything but hear the voice
It was anything but hear the voice
That says that we're all basically alone
And despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness
Is just a case for mitosis
And why do some show no mercy
While others are painfully shy?
Tell me doctor, can you quantify?
He just wants to know the reason why
The reason why...
The Ides, by frYars
youtube
So much fun this song (and slightly violent lyrics, but just go with it)! And bounciness! I challenge you to sit through it without bobbing your head or tapping a foot or similar! Seriously, you manage it, I'll give a drabble or whatever, I am THAT confident! Honour system, everyone!
I always knew her as a baker,
But something I knew not,
is That when I tried to take her,
There was something Ides forgot,
For I knew I couldn't keep her,
And running out of time,
I tried so hard, I tried to cheat her,
She was a running in her prime,
So I thought about my choices,
And chose to drop the gun,
And amongst the screaming voices,
Something told me I should run.
I never thought I was a runner,
and I thought I knew her well.
I never thought I was a runner,
and I thought I knew her well.
Walking Into Battle with the Lord, by Chumbawamba
sendspace
Personal confession: occasionally I track down gospel music. Most of it does little for me - it is smug or, worse, *boring* - but then you will trip over something honest, someone awestruck at the unknowable and yet striving, yearning. There is a nakedness to worship; an emotional rawness un-veiled by self-consciousness that you rarely see in popular culture. But with gospel, I theorize, the ideal audience is in love just the same way you are. Or the ideal audience is nothing human at all.
(Snow Patrol's Set the Fire to the Third Bar gets me the same way. Man, that is ever an excellent song. Not a happy song, no, but it scours away your emotions and replaces them with its own.)
ANYWAY! This song is *not* gospel, although I acquired it thinking it must be. Then I listened to it about two times *still thinking so*. I am quick. But it is pretty and, if you actually deign to listen to such things, the lyrics are subversive as religion is concerned.
Take my aim with a higher will
Trust my Lord to hold me still
Say 'amen' and shoot to kill
Walking into battle with the Lord
With open arms on Judgement Day
Teach the children how to pray
Faithful, blind, we all believe
I was taught by Adam but I blame it on Eve
Walking into battle with the Lord
Robot Ponies, by Laura Barrett
youtube
Because apparently there is a Canadian Content requirement for these recs? (A: No, actually there is not.) This song seems like it might be a metaphor for something, but I am always changing my mind about what that could be. I am probably over thinking it.
But, never mind me, the lyrics are actually about ROBOT PONIES, no fooling! Robots AND ponies; two great tastes that should never, ever be made into ice cream! The instrument Barrett uses - a kalimba - rings metallic but unmistakably physical, and much different than music by guitars or keyboards or synthesizers. The whole song feels like it belongs to the future we imagined in the 1970s.
Christmas Eve, 2053
underneath every little girl's tree
A Robot Pony
comb their soft and luscious nylon fur
Listen Close
hear their clockwork hearts whir
Robot Ponies
they feed on plastic bags cut up like lettuce
right out of your hand
things get out of hand
unless you use one of seven preset functions
to make them understand
make them understand
You Know Best
You Know Best
Swimming Pools, by Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down
youtube
My current favourite feminist rock song. (Currently beating out Metric's Soft Rock Star.) There is something amazingly *vivid* in its bright eyed, summer vacation imagery. Like you can take a breath and taste the sunlight on your tongue.
We are sore the length of our bodies
We restore water we cry
We are nothing if not your granddaughters
We have been nothing but dignified
We, we brave bee stings and all
And we don't dive, we cannonball
And we splash our eyes full of chemicals
Just so there's none left for little girls
Just so there's none left for little girls
Roll, roll, roll up your denim
We've got to pedal 10 hours south
They pour it down from their balconies
You've got to push all the doubt to the side of your mouth
Imitosis, by Andrew Bird
youtube
I always think of this as a Doctor Who song. Yes, yes, we're all agreed that Handlebars is The Doctor Who song, but this can be Yet Anther Doctor Who song, fair? It even has "Doctor" in its lyrics!
(And if you are not a DW fan, do not worry, I am sure you have someone sciencey in your fandoms to whom it applies.)
He's keeping busy
Yeah, he's bleeding stones
With his machinations and his palindromes
It was anything but hear the voice
Anything but hear the voice
It was anything but hear the voice
That says that we're all basically alone
And despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness
Is just a case for mitosis
And why do some show no mercy
While others are painfully shy?
Tell me doctor, can you quantify?
He just wants to know the reason why
The reason why...
The Ides, by frYars
youtube
So much fun this song (and slightly violent lyrics, but just go with it)! And bounciness! I challenge you to sit through it without bobbing your head or tapping a foot or similar! Seriously, you manage it, I'll give a drabble or whatever, I am THAT confident! Honour system, everyone!
I always knew her as a baker,
But something I knew not,
is That when I tried to take her,
There was something Ides forgot,
For I knew I couldn't keep her,
And running out of time,
I tried so hard, I tried to cheat her,
She was a running in her prime,
So I thought about my choices,
And chose to drop the gun,
And amongst the screaming voices,
Something told me I should run.
I never thought I was a runner,
and I thought I knew her well.
I never thought I was a runner,
and I thought I knew her well.
Walking Into Battle with the Lord, by Chumbawamba
sendspace
Personal confession: occasionally I track down gospel music. Most of it does little for me - it is smug or, worse, *boring* - but then you will trip over something honest, someone awestruck at the unknowable and yet striving, yearning. There is a nakedness to worship; an emotional rawness un-veiled by self-consciousness that you rarely see in popular culture. But with gospel, I theorize, the ideal audience is in love just the same way you are. Or the ideal audience is nothing human at all.
(Snow Patrol's Set the Fire to the Third Bar gets me the same way. Man, that is ever an excellent song. Not a happy song, no, but it scours away your emotions and replaces them with its own.)
ANYWAY! This song is *not* gospel, although I acquired it thinking it must be. Then I listened to it about two times *still thinking so*. I am quick. But it is pretty and, if you actually deign to listen to such things, the lyrics are subversive as religion is concerned.
Take my aim with a higher will
Trust my Lord to hold me still
Say 'amen' and shoot to kill
Walking into battle with the Lord
With open arms on Judgement Day
Teach the children how to pray
Faithful, blind, we all believe
I was taught by Adam but I blame it on Eve
Walking into battle with the Lord
Robot Ponies, by Laura Barrett
youtube
Because apparently there is a Canadian Content requirement for these recs? (A: No, actually there is not.) This song seems like it might be a metaphor for something, but I am always changing my mind about what that could be. I am probably over thinking it.
But, never mind me, the lyrics are actually about ROBOT PONIES, no fooling! Robots AND ponies; two great tastes that should never, ever be made into ice cream! The instrument Barrett uses - a kalimba - rings metallic but unmistakably physical, and much different than music by guitars or keyboards or synthesizers. The whole song feels like it belongs to the future we imagined in the 1970s.
Christmas Eve, 2053
underneath every little girl's tree
A Robot Pony
comb their soft and luscious nylon fur
Listen Close
hear their clockwork hearts whir
Robot Ponies
they feed on plastic bags cut up like lettuce
right out of your hand
things get out of hand
unless you use one of seven preset functions
to make them understand
make them understand
You Know Best
You Know Best
Swimming Pools, by Thao Nguyen and The Get Down Stay Down
youtube
My current favourite feminist rock song. (Currently beating out Metric's Soft Rock Star.) There is something amazingly *vivid* in its bright eyed, summer vacation imagery. Like you can take a breath and taste the sunlight on your tongue.
We are sore the length of our bodies
We restore water we cry
We are nothing if not your granddaughters
We have been nothing but dignified
We, we brave bee stings and all
And we don't dive, we cannonball
And we splash our eyes full of chemicals
Just so there's none left for little girls
Just so there's none left for little girls
Roll, roll, roll up your denim
We've got to pedal 10 hours south
They pour it down from their balconies
You've got to push all the doubt to the side of your mouth
