Song of the Day: Bewitched, The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present didn't exist for me until April...except as an emphatic recommendation from Ben. I finally followed his recommendation and went to see them live and was blown away. How could any one man harbor so much eloquent anger? How could he fit full sentences of bitterness into a lyric that sounded...great? I have no idea. He's a bit unrelenting in his anger and bitterness, at least on the two albums that I have (Bizarro and Take Fountain)
I have two copies of Bizarro in my iTunes. I think that Ben must have sent me a copy before I bought my own? So, I had been ingesting it on "shuffle" over time. Actually, I have four copies of Bizarro on my iPod. no idea how.
As for Bewitched...on its own I haven't listened to it directly and specifically. it fits the mood of the rest. It drones without a lot of feedback, and then transitions into sweet guitar notes. But the liner notes say it's about unrequited love...the lyrics? very few noted in the liner, except this:
"the last time I saw you, you were, oh, this near
and there's a thousand things I wish I'd said and done
but the moment's gone"
That's a great line...but on my 3rd listen, I still haven't heard it.
OK, now I have. He snarls it out...consumed with his own regret, and then the music moves into a pounding guitar driven sound which seems to reinforce the thought, the regret, the impossibility of it all. and it picks up pace to only to quiet again. It feels like an empty room.
So, that's what the song of the day brings up for me.
I have two copies of Bizarro in my iTunes. I think that Ben must have sent me a copy before I bought my own? So, I had been ingesting it on "shuffle" over time. Actually, I have four copies of Bizarro on my iPod. no idea how.
As for Bewitched...on its own I haven't listened to it directly and specifically. it fits the mood of the rest. It drones without a lot of feedback, and then transitions into sweet guitar notes. But the liner notes say it's about unrequited love...the lyrics? very few noted in the liner, except this:
"the last time I saw you, you were, oh, this near
and there's a thousand things I wish I'd said and done
but the moment's gone"
That's a great line...but on my 3rd listen, I still haven't heard it.
OK, now I have. He snarls it out...consumed with his own regret, and then the music moves into a pounding guitar driven sound which seems to reinforce the thought, the regret, the impossibility of it all. and it picks up pace to only to quiet again. It feels like an empty room.
So, that's what the song of the day brings up for me.