One Song Glory
I saw an interesting tidbit on Mike Doughty's Blog a moment ago, and decided I just had to share it with y'all. I don't know if you listen to the very excellent Mousse & Sqrrrl podcast, but if you do, you'll have heard the unique lexicon that they use to describe the effect of playing a song/album/artist's collected works to death.
To 'Sqrrrl' (v) a song is to play it incessantly until no one can stand to hear it anymore.
To 'Neko Case' (v) an artist is to Sqrrrl that artist's albums to the point that the artist is unwelcome in the household speakers.
This is the quote I found amusing from Doughty:
"I get up on Sundays, as I've told you many times, and watch Old White Guy TV, aka CBS News Sunday Morning. The critic Bill Flanagan reviewed a bunch of albums, mostly by older artists, and, about the album format, said, "These artists prove there's life in the old form yet."
I can dig it. Golden Delicious is sequenced as an album, and I'd dig it very much if some people listened to it that way. But, we live in a one song world these days. Why is that considered to be trivial? A single song to me can be like a great painting, something to be contemplated, scrutinized, until all its nuances reveal themselves--and can keep revealing little parts of the mystery every time you listen. When I fall in love with a song, I put it on repeat and listen to it for half an hour straight, back-to-back, on subway rides."
So there you have it - Doughty Sqrrrls his songs too.
To 'Sqrrrl' (v) a song is to play it incessantly until no one can stand to hear it anymore.
To 'Neko Case' (v) an artist is to Sqrrrl that artist's albums to the point that the artist is unwelcome in the household speakers.
This is the quote I found amusing from Doughty:
"I get up on Sundays, as I've told you many times, and watch Old White Guy TV, aka CBS News Sunday Morning. The critic Bill Flanagan reviewed a bunch of albums, mostly by older artists, and, about the album format, said, "These artists prove there's life in the old form yet."
I can dig it. Golden Delicious is sequenced as an album, and I'd dig it very much if some people listened to it that way. But, we live in a one song world these days. Why is that considered to be trivial? A single song to me can be like a great painting, something to be contemplated, scrutinized, until all its nuances reveal themselves--and can keep revealing little parts of the mystery every time you listen. When I fall in love with a song, I put it on repeat and listen to it for half an hour straight, back-to-back, on subway rides."
So there you have it - Doughty Sqrrrls his songs too.