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Fave/Best Lyrics/Lines of the Oeuvre: Craig Finn

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Best Lyrics/Lines of the Oeuvre: BLOTO !!
or maybe fave lines : FLOTO !

semi-tortured phrasing in favor of neat-o acronyms!

BLOTO: Craig Finn --

suggestions:

she was lit up like an arson but she burned out like arsenio -
Secret Santa Cruz, Lifter Puller

she crossed herself and it turned me on
said jesus i'm jumpy - the candy machine and my girlfriend, Lifter Puller

in the 90s we were wired and well connected. put it all down on technology and lost everything we invested - Positive Jam, The Hold Steady

The perception of the public is that Craig Finn is a little bit complex. -- The Dead Ones Look Like Dolls, The BrokerDealer

Stick with me and I'll deliver sweet epiphanies. -- Do Me Nails, The Broker Dealer

So many to choose from...


― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

this one goes out to all the white druggie ravers/ hey savior /your soup is on....

it's always so creative when you're hanging out with our Creator....and his son/ our Savior

She's says she like the Agnostic Front / They got crazy fast guitars/ Says she really likes the speedy drugs/ they get crazy in her car...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

don't wear those push-up pants to the high school dance, you've got enough nicknames already

i asked the postmaster, he said penpals really can't be going steady - the pirate and the penpal

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"we used to fight with our fists, we used to fight over chicks
and we kissed at the flicks and people got pissed
and they spit from the balcony
these english majors wanna be some super genius novelists
they end up music journalists, chicks ain't that into it"
- Lifter Puller, "Touch My Stuff"

Best Verse Ever

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

And, naturally:
"she came on like she wanted to kiss, now she's kissing like she already came"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

we were slippling on the frozen mudslides

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

also, man, Nate Saint Peezy and Matos to thread!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bruised hips/From doin' the Bump too much/Blue lips/From slipping the tongue too much"

Lifter Puller - "Lonely in a Limousine"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the entirety of "Positive Jam." my god, it's the best thing he's written.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
Lots of new possibilities from the last album like:

"i guess the heavy stuff ain't quite at its heaviest by the time it gets out to suburban minneapolis." -- Hornets! Hornets!

"you came into the ER drinking gin from a jam jar. and the nurses making jokes about the ER being like an after bar." -- Stevie Nix

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I watched them do Hoodrat Friend on Conan, and was sitting their thinking, "My god, someone just made a reference to Osseo, MN on national television"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
Tramps like us
and we like tramps

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...
From Modesto is Not That Sweet:

i was at some party and she said she had to talk to me and then she didn't say anything.

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

"But if small town cops are like swarms of flies,
and if blackened foil is like boils and hail,
than I'm pretty sure we've been thru this before."
-Hold Steady, "Cattle and the Creeping Things"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"you came into the ER drinking gin from a jam jar. and the nurses making jokes about the ER being like an after bar."

I was going to put this one up!

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

ginger and jack and four or five feminax
psycho eyes and a stovepipe hat

― how's life, Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:48 (twelve years ago)


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