Match-up #3 - Something On Vs. Yawning or Snarling
I ask you to listen to the two songs in the match-up Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of both songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.
YorS is running away with this one. 2-0. It's a blowout!!!
I'll be sad to see one of these go down in the first round
Yawning or Snarling and Titanic Terrarium were both new additions to this years tournament and it looks like they might go head to head in the later rounds. I wouldn't be surprised if either song ends up taking it all, sending yet another Day For Night track into the winner's circle.
Marcus1970 Wrote:Yawning or Snarling and Titanic Terrarium were both new additions to this years tournament and it looks like they might go head to head in the later rounds. I wouldn't be surprised if either song ends up taking it all, sending yet another Day For Night track into the winner's circle.
I don't know if either one can take the whole thing, but I'm sure that DFN will be strongly represented to the end.
Yawning or Snarling has epic qualities that Something On can't hope to match.
The lyric changes between the two verses are the patent Hip -- compare a similar success in The Dire Wolf, less so in Stay, more subtle (too subtle?) in World Container, and, regrettably, absent in IAGLIYDW.
One day in El Paso/One night in El Paso
The cops go into the crowd
Under a glaring bladder of light/Under a throbbing bladder of light
And the music is so loud/And the music is just so loud
And the tourists take their t-shirts off/And the tourists turn their TVs off
And a busload of kids gives you the finger/And the bat sees a bug with the sound of a linger
Afternoon when the sidewalks hot/Nightime when the shadows cough
And the shadow's to chilly to linger/And you're chilled to the tips of your fingers
As an aside, my favourite pure snippet of this technique is ABAC: "that's where the hornet stung me, and I had a feverish dream/that's when the hornet stung me, and I had a serious dream". The first time I heard that, it blew my mind.
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