All right! I relent!
For about a year now, I've resisted listening to Modest Mouse. I'm reluctant to explain the petty, stupid reasoning behind it, but here goes: Good friends of mine love them and talk about how sad the lyrics are. It's an "I love this music because it makes me miserable!" logic to which I throw up a wall of resistance. I sneered and groaned at the album title, "Good News for People Who Love Bad News." But a few months ago, I started hearing "Float On" on the radio and would blast it. I thought, okay, maybe they're not so bad. I could get into this. So yesterday at Cheapo, I saw "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" (shudder) for six dollars. I went ahead and bought it, and you can say "I told you so": I lurve them! Gloat on, alright. :P
There are chinks in the armor of my refusal to consume certain pop culture items for no good reason. Jeebus, I might as well watch Titanic now.
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Oh no, another convert!
My dislike of MM has very little to do with the lyrics, but with Isaac Brock's voice itself, his reported offstage behavior, and the fact the band created their sound by ripping off two much better bands (Archers of Loaf, Built to Spill).
But whatevs. "Float On" isn't too bad. Reminds me of "Come on Eileen."
Me too.
I avoided them as well, but relented this summer. I actually kind of like them (and Wilco, who I avoided out of pure snobbery).
The new Elliott Smith album is out today and I'm off to the music store.
Lauren
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Marching jauntily
Listening to "Float On" in my headphones this morning as I walked from my car to my office, I was overjoyed, even though the weather here is miserable today. I started to feel that "If other people could know how good it feels to be me, they'd never want to be themselves again" thing surging inside me. :) That's what music should do, IMO.