Reply To: Artificial Heart discussion
That’s it! It’s not just the monkeys, it’s the narrative! And songs in the second person! *listens to The World Belongs To You again*
I like prose and short films that clearly show what happens and have proper beginnings, middles and ends (I’ve been disappointed by so many short films because they forgot about the end.) It’s less important in songs (and is arguably a bad thing because you get everything on the first listen, instead of getting more ideas each time, though if you dig deep enough you can still write an essay about it), but it’s still nice.
That said, Now I Am An Arsonist (which he’s said is just an impressionistic song and he doesn’t know what it’s about) and Nobody Loves You Like Me (about which he specifically said, ‘I’m not going to say what it’s about, I’m just going to sing it’ before each of the first four performances) are perhaps the best-sounding songs on the album, and among my most-listened.
I still haven’t done a track-by-track review. It probably wouldn’t be that interesting after I’ve already rambled so much anyway.