Love the band, love the albums, hate the jackasses that live within the songs

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Case in point: Stars

First off, I love these guys. Set Yourself on Fire is easily one of my favorite albums I've heard as of late. The boy/girl dialogue is awesome. Yay Canada.

BUT, when I hear songs like Your Ex-Lover is Dead, I picture this self-absorbed couple that I would get stuck behind in a bar waiting for drinks. They would both be clad in black, fawning over one another, ordering bullshit high maintenance drinks like Martinis while all I want is a beer. Unaware of my inner turmoil, they would stare in each others eyes and wonder why the sex last night was one iota less incredible than the previous evening. Reaching breaking point, I would jump on the bar and smack their heads together like coconuts.

Anyone else here experienced irrational distate for characters in songs? C'mon people, don't make me feel like I need therapy.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I listen to rap or country I think "ordinary people really are a whole other species"

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I hear Ted Nugent sing about how his face is a Maserati, looking for a garage to drive into, or when he sings about wang dang sweet poontang, I feel an irrational dislike of the human vagina.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

although maybe he's not talking about human vaginas after all!

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I always had an (ir?)rational distate for that Maxwell and his silver hammer. Something about him I never quite liked.

― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe 'Lola' from the Kinks.

― Flash (cowboytrance), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

No one has said Oasis?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 17 March 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis has not been mentioned because the thread is referring to the characters within songs. While we may never now just how many special people did indeed change, their desire to make themselves better is just too uplifting to treat with derision.

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.