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Funny thing, he apparently didn't know that song existed.
I call bullshit on that.
Funny thing, he apparently didn't know that song existed.
How is it?
This album is very, very good, especially the first half. A nice improvement over American Slang, which was pretty good but had a few clunkers, and at 35 minutes or whatever felt a bit paltry.
59 Sound is still my favorite though, as I love the stories and themes running throughout it.
I'm pretty sold. I love these guys so so much right now.
The first half is outstanding. I can't get enough of "Here comes my man", which I feel has some Springsteen undertones to it. I heard it live awhile back and it sounded a little different...but it's still excellent.
Yeah, but for a big music fan who grew up with Pearl Jam and Nirvana, it seems highly unlikely he never heard that song.
While any similarities between “Too Much Blood” and the forgotten 1983 Rolling Stones cut of the same name are accidental (Hint: there aren’t any), one song that is still very much a reference to Fallon’s record collection is Handwritten’s acoustic-guitar-shrouded, sunshine-pop, Byrds/Tom Petty-homage “Here Comes My Man.” That title sound familiar, doesn’t it?
“I’m not really a Pixies guy,” Fallon recalls, “I was asking in the studio, I was like, ‘Isn’t there another song called ‘Here Comes My Man’?… And then we found out, ‘oh, the Pixies, yeah. And I’m like, ‘What’s their song about?’”
Not unlike Fallon’s lyric and title, Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man” is inspired by The Velvet Underground’s “Waiting For The Man.”
“It kinda came from a mix between Beyonce, with ‘Single Ladies’ – and this is totally true; and this is what I’m talkin’ about, about not being cool,” Fallon says, “and Lou Reed – ‘Waiting For My Man.’”
unico said:Well, when you respond to my post by quoting me, I'm going to think you're responding to what I said. Glad we got that straightened out.
Fallon hasn't done a solo thing, but if you are referring to the side project he did with Ian, The Horrible Crowes, I don't recall it being marketed as Springstein-esque. I didn't see them live, but I don't think that album particularly sounds like that anyway. But that's just me. I prefer TGA anyway.
Besides Fallon, TGA have a delicious bassist, whom I refer to as a god because...well, look at him!
So I didn't recognize that song at the end but I did pick up the lil ISHFWILF at the end.