MissVelvetDress_75
Blue Crack Addict
My sources told me that it's about Mofo and Shouter, specifically.
My sources told me that it's about Mofo and Shouter, specifically.
Identifies himself as Win's brother.
I suspect some of the others who mention having been there might also be band members but I don't know.
William War III = Will Butler
"What's the big deal, I stole Win Butler's album off the internet."
And ... WIN.
Oh my dear god what is that horrible song they're singing
My sources told me that it's about Mofo and Shouter, specifically.
"City with No Children," .. and "Suburban War" especially seem to be nothing more than excuses to beat the listener over the head with the theme.
From late in the last thread:
Nice post LM, but I can't resist bringing this up because it's one of my favorite lyrical moments on the album.
It's not "Now you're knocking at my door, saying 'Please come out against the night.'" It's "Now you're knocking at my door, saying 'Please come out with us tonight.'"
It's a huge difference, and such a great lyric for me, because it immediately takes me back to being a kid, before cell phones and the internet were in everyone's possession, and friends from the neighborhood would have to go to eachother's parent's houses and knock on the front door and ask if they could come and hang out for the night.
It brings back a lot of good memories and goes a long way, for me, towards evoking the atmosphere and image that the album is going for: growing up a middle class white kid in pre-information era suburban America.
Great album.
Why did I get an hour's worth of music when I paid for this album? I should have only gotten 40 minutes or so. That would have been much better. What is this horseshit?
Why did I get an hour's worth of music when I paid for this album? I should have only gotten 40 minutes or so. That would have been much better. What is this horseshit?
Did you guys ever use the phrase 'call on'? as in 'let go call on GAF' when you were going to knock on someones door? It's something I havent heard in years, but I dont know if it was a colloquialism. I dont imagine anyone at all uses it these days
The difference between an album with more song than you like and a film that's a half hour too long is that the album is (more or less) always just a collection of songs and most of the time you can easily skip or outright excise the parts you don't care for and craft your own most pleasurable listening experience. Hell, isn't the preferred past time of the majority of people in this subforum playlist-making? You can't exactly cut out parts of a film you don't care for or chop it down to a more digestible length if you're feeling antsy. Not sure the director's cut analogy has much relevance here either. Because yeah, 99% of all albums you'll listen to are a collection or related and hopefully cohesive/unified but entirely separable works.
a shorter, more focused, more cohesive album with little filler (like say Pink Moon) will always be better than an overlong album with plenty of brilliance let down by average songs, at least the way i listen to albums that's true.
But the songs that you're implying are just filler are top 5s for other people, so the implication that they're just there to hammer the audience over the head isn't necessarily true. It's entirely subjective, but some of us genuinely like the songs you mentioned
Fair enough. We appear to think of the concept of albums very differently.