I'm totally pissing away my repeat rules this month. I got kind of hooked on this song yesterday and decided that I absolutely had to post it or else I was cheating not only myself, but you, the pure innocent.
This song that perfectly transcribes one of those moments where you feel like you're absolutely overwhelmed by life and can't take it anymore and you sit down to write it out and it comes out into this tiny little list of inconsequential things and you look at it and think: Damn, that's a tiny little list of things... but... but my dog died last week!
So what do you do? You put it to some ridiculously awesome music via super-fast finger-picked guitar and vocals that teeter over into the realm of wailing and you got yourself a kick ass song.
If Frightened Rabbit writes songs about what it's really like to be inside a normal guy's head (and they do, for the most part), then The Dodos write songs about what it's really like to be inside the mind of an endlessly conflicted, hopelessly middle class, and irreparably melodramatic man-boy in his woman-battered and emo early twenties. Ben Gibbard, eat your heart out, you can never be this young again.
I also feel this song is an appropriate follow up to yesterday's song... though I can't remember what yesterday's song was, now. Weird. What was it... I posted Donovan the other day... Was that yesterday? No! It was John Lennon yesterday! Bonus track rants... Jesus, in 24 hours my whole memory falls apart. No wonder my conscience is so clear.