Re: AftP : your 3 favourite tunes and you 3 worst

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:36:34 -0400
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"tad" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> MOTM . Montage, Identity, Entertainment, Death(?). One of their best
imho.
It's one of their most moving songs, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
> Nightswimming. I agree w/you Ron. Reminds me of one by TS Eliot.
To real for Eliot (sorry) but yeah, it's one of Stipe's closest passes
to a song lyric being a publishable poem. E-bow the Letter is also in
that class, and You Are the Everything, maybe, and Parakeet. And a few
others, of course.
For me Find the River is at the other pole, like bad undergrad poetry
that tries to hard and throws way too many sentimental images and
metaphors and nature references at the reader at once, too much to
prove.
I used to argue over this with kfj, who was once a regular here. Sigh.
(A bit of bait in case she googles her initials. She probably doesn't.)
> Drive. Still like the lyrics & especially Peter's effect at 2:01 into
it.
>
> *Worst*
>
> Everybody Hurts. Yuck. Easy to play but challenging to sing that
high for me.
Country Feedback and Driver 8 are just as easy to play and so much more
lyrically interesting to sing!
> Ignoreland. Whiney. On this song that great sliding guitar hook is
wasted.
Certainly proves how "expiration date prone" political songs can be.
> Instrumental. Some I like (on OOT, e.g.). Not this one.
There are some interesting ideas in it but for me it never got off the
ground. Oh well.
Ron