Reply To: Song-Fu 2
i don't seem to have the all-consuming passion for double-tracked vocals as our hero. i feel like it would be a lot more effective if it was just the chorus and maybe just a few other spots, for emphasis. also i am not big on the christian creation myth, it being all sexist and stuff. i do like the 1st verse though, and i love the 3rd one. he's right that that's the strongest one.
i feel like i've heard about a creation myth involving bivalves recently. have to see if i can track it down.
the thing i think that's a little disconcerting about this song to me is it doesn't seem to have quite as marked a musical progression as some of his other ones that i really like. the ending is also kind of abrupt, although i guess ending songs is a problem popular music has grappled with since its inception. (fade out = cop out.) it does have a certain simplicity, or austerity that i dig. (kind of like 'heaven' by the talking heads.)
can't listen to any of the others because my work has blocked the mp3s from the site somehow, and the button on p&s's blog en't working for me.