Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a minimum of 500 words for at least one of the songs below by February 29th. Please see the
intro post for info on headers and subject lines, which will make my job a hundred times easier when I go to tag these things. *hearts*
Cloud Cult - "Living on the Outside of Your Skin"The guy from Cloud Cult sounds
bizarrely like the guy from Modest Mouse, but I like Cloud Cult better. The name has
nothing to do with it. No, really. Just a poppy good band; I love this particular track to death because it's so totally the anti-emo. Very hopeful. I like that. *hearts*
( lyrics )The Mountain Goats - "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature"Oh yeah, like I could resist. *grins* The Mountain Goats are mind-bogglingly prolific--I have 41 of their albums, and I'm still not
completely sure that's everything--and their lyrics are incredibly clever and often sardonic, while the music is terribly catchy if sometimes very rough production-wise (think guy with guitar in a hotel room somewhere recording at 3AM into an old 8-track machine if you want to know how rough). The vocals are kind of like Bright Eyes; either it drives you crazy or you develop a strange sort of fondness for his voice over time. Sort of a trade-off there between that and the sheer magic of the lyrics.
( lyrics )Liam Finn - "Shadow of Your Man"Honestly I've been listening to this guy for days. Days, I tell you. If you like Neil Finn (Liam is his son), the Wallflowers, etc., you will like this guy. This particular track is from the Department of Pretty Depressing Things because, um, variety. Yeah.
( lyrics )Bonus: From the Department of SoundtrackageDavid Holmes - "Don't Die Just Yet"Well, since it's a first post, I thought I'd throw in something totally open-ended (read: instrumental), hopefully to create a writing
mood more than anything. Despite the title, there's nothing depressing at all about this song; it sounds more like something I'd expect to hear during a "bantering while driving in the city late at night" bit in a Tarantino movie. Sort of funky, sort of bluesy. Also, the Verve called. They want their string section back.