One Great Song…
So, I love music. I don't have the time as a working adult to focus on it like I could as a young person. I miss that. One of my good friends started a music group, of which I'm a member. It's very fun.
One of the things we do is recommend bands and specific albums to each other. One of these bands that I've gotten in to directly from this experience is The Old 97s.
Most of the time I really enjoy just about any album that has real heart in it. In fact I can't tell you the last time I really hated an album and wasn't impressed with it's bravery and or commitment at the same time. The opposite of love is not hate, after all. It's indifference.
What really get's me excited about a band is how much a specific song captures me. It's that one song that turns me on to a band and then the whole thing opens up from there. The Old 97s have written such a song.
I give you "The Barrier Reef". If it was just that the lyrics were so great that would be one thing, but you can read the lyrics and pretty much correctly predict the melody.. which is quite impressive. The music is just as good as the lyrics.
The line that really gets me is:
"My name's Stewart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady-killer."
She said, "I'm already dead," that's exactly what she said.
It's hard to imagine the rest of this song working as well if he didn't finish that verse with "that's exactly what she said." Musically this is punctuated with a dramatic bluesy pause right before that line. Then he goes into the chorus.. which.. well you should really just listen to the song.
Anyway if you're looking for a good album... Too Far To Care which has this song on it and is excellent
