Fun with music

[weaktwos]

So I'm listening to Broken Social Scene. Their songs have quite a distinctive quality to them. First of all, in many cases, you know they are singing, but you cannot understand what. Broken Social Scene does something that Led Zepplin was prone to do on occasion: entitle their songs with verbage that makes no appearance in the lyrics. * Well, there's the Lemon song, but we all know it really wasn't about Lemons. Or lemon juice.

*With the exception of "the".

So, consider this song:

Broken Social Scene
Handjobs for the Holidays Lyrics

Let me take you on, we'll get high just a little
Try to surface the calm, we don't come inside

Has it brought you closer to this?
Yeah, has it brought you closer to this?
And is it coming alive? Try to believe it
Was the question a point? I don't want your love
Has it brought you closer to this?
Yeah, has it brought you closer to this?

We've got eyes that leave us in places we don't see
We've got eyes that leave us in places we don't see

Let me take you on, we'll get high just a little
It kinda takes the joy away, we don't come at all

Now, this song has an infectious, mellow, yet upbeat sound to it. But in listening to it, you will not know what they are talking about. I live in mock fear of giving someone pure of heart and mind a ride in my car sometime, this song will come on, and he or she will ask, "Oh, this sounds nice, what is it?"

Perhaps this song is an obtuse homage to Spinal Tap and Nigel Tufnel's composition of "Lick my Love Pump".

Of course I could make up a song title, but what fun would that be?

Comments

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Joy Division was another band whose song titled were rarely reflected in the lyrics -- or at least there were enough songs where they weren't that that's how I think of their catalog.

At least, that applies to songs they wrote and recorded as Joy Division -- with "Colony" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as exceptions. Some of their earliest songs, recorded originally under the name Warsaw, DID incorporate the title into the lyrics -- "The Kill," "Living in the Ice Age," "They Walked in Line," "Shadowplay."

But they seemed to move toward not using the title in the lyrics as time went on, to the point where two of their songs (I forget which two) reportedly had each other's name at some point.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Hah! That's fantastic.