Reply To: What’s your favorite *underrated* Coulton song?
i like town crotch for the way it employs nostalgia and then cuts the cloying sweetness with honesty and crassness.
the thing about nostalgia is it only really exists when you gild over the crappy parts of the bygone era you're eroticising, and i think that song does a wonderful job of highlighting this in the way it breaks the nostalgic tone by reminding us of the stupid shit that goes on in situations like this – "someone played steve miller, someone set some stuff on fire" – and simply by the blunt, unequivocal sexualization of the eponymous character.
yet despite this, the tone is still largely sweet. he doesn't just poison the entire thing with sarcasm, he also displays a genuine fondness for the subject.
it's not on my top 5 and is unlikely to make it that high up my list at any point but it is unarguably one of his less well-regarded songs that i think doesn't get the respect it deserves.