Looks like Good Life is eliminated as we head to Round 10.
6 - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
7 - 38 Years Old
8 - The Kids Don't Get It
9 - We Want To Be It
10 - The Depression Suite
11 - If New Orleans Is Beat
12 - What Blue
13 - Stay
14 - Last American Exit
Vote for the song you think is weakest amongst the remaining third place finishers. After 48 hours, the song with the most votes will be eliminated. In the event of a tie, both (or more) song will be eliminated.
This poll will end Wednesday 3:14pm Eastern.
Happy voting,
Shane
And now it’s the final five.
LTR, you have been with us for a long time but that’s coming to an end.
And so the 5 songs remaining are the 5 that were released in the 90s.
These last 5 songs are classics. Tough to choose, but I'm gonna have to vote Flamenco for this round.
I also voted Flamenco, but it hurt a little bit. It's beautiful.
Flamenco >LTR...for me the top 3 (in no particular order...yet) are Poets, Flamenco and Pigeon Camera. Scared a very close 4th, but as wonderful a song it is, particularly lyrically, it doesn't stand up quite as well as a song. Musically, I connect more with the other three. I'm being really, really, picky though!
Going LTR. To me, just not quite as strong as the others.
Shane
Maybe, just maybe LTR this time. Been voting for it for last 4 votes and hope it is the last time. Its round 10 and I have only picked 2 songs so far.
I can't vote for LTR yet. Those last few lines -- it's well worth the wait -- as Gord drags it out and the bass line walks down underneath him...it's heavenly.
i voted Poets. shame, i know. but if each of those songs came up on shuffle, Poets is the one i would skip first. not that it isn't a great song (and their best video?) but i think the others are much stronger.
I voted for Flamenco but regret it. These are all 10/10 songs...I can't choose.
mark Wrote:i voted Poets. shame, i know. but if each of those songs came up on shuffle, Poets is the one i would skip first. not that it isn't a great song (and their best video?) but i think the others are much stronger.
Pretty sure it is my favourite video.
All five of these are fantastic songs. However I think one of them is considerably weaker than the other four on the lyrical front, and that's Pigeon Camera. It's a melding of two ideas for which he seemingly didn't have enough material to flesh either out into a whole song. Add to that the non-sequitur of boot burning at the end and the whole thing feels loosely stitched together. Yet musically it has a powerful spell on me, enough so that I will likely go with this as my winner. I love the captured sound effect of the underwater tubular bells which punctuates "plan" as it heightens the dramatic feeling of the song. So I'm going to sinfully ignore the fact that the other four are all lyrically superior compositions (some considerably so... I'm looking at you 'Scared') and vote for feeling the rest of the way on this one.
potsie Wrote:All five of these are fantastic songs. However I think one of them is considerably weaker than the other four on the lyrical front, and that's Pigeon Camera. It's a melding of two ideas for which he seemingly didn't have enough material to flesh either out into a whole song. Add to that the non-sequitur of boot burning at the end and the whole thing feels loosely stitched together. Yet musically it has a powerful spell on me, enough so that I will likely go with this as my winner. I love the captured sound effect of the underwater tubular bells which punctuates "plan" as it heightens the dramatic feeling of the song. So I'm going to sinfully ignore the fact that the other four are all lyrically superior compositions (some considerably so... I'm looking at you 'Scared') and vote for feeling the rest of the way on this one.
Non sequitur? I believe every GD lyric was on purpose, misplaced or not. Every time I question the lyrics, someone shows me the light and I'm reminded how meticulous of a writer he was. The song seems to be about a situation that spiralled out of control - "I didn't want this, it's horrific, I'm embarrassed" - so to me a line about having no contingency plan makes perfect sense.
HipMuseum has some good background on the song:
http://www.hipmuseum.com/pigeon.html
Most shocking to me was to hear that the song is almost totally a Johnny Fay composition (minus the lyrics, of course)!
andrew sharpe Wrote:potsie Wrote:All five of these are fantastic songs. However I think one of them is considerably weaker than the other four on the lyrical front, and that's Pigeon Camera. It's a melding of two ideas for which he seemingly didn't have enough material to flesh either out into a whole song. Add to that the non-sequitur of boot burning at the end and the whole thing feels loosely stitched together. Yet musically it has a powerful spell on me, enough so that I will likely go with this as my winner. I love the captured sound effect of the underwater tubular bells which punctuates "plan" as it heightens the dramatic feeling of the song. So I'm going to sinfully ignore the fact that the other four are all lyrically superior compositions (some considerably so... I'm looking at you 'Scared') and vote for feeling the rest of the way on this one.
Non sequitur? I believe every GD lyric was on purpose, misplaced or not. Every time I question the lyrics, someone shows me the light and I'm reminded how meticulous of a writer he was. The song seems to be about a situation that spiralled out of control - "I didn't want this, it's horrific, I'm embarrassed" - so to me a line about having no contingency plan makes perfect sense.
HipMuseum has some good background on the song: http://www.hipmuseum.com/pigeon.html
I don't find the themes of incest and spying fit well. Voyeurism would be a better fit with the 'pigeon camera' - he's creepily spying on his sister but never takes it any further than that. But incest? Why would that be "boring"? I've never understood that line. The line "something we could no longer contain" gives the impression that they were caught or that this incestuous relationship has resulted in a pregnancy. In which case that would certainly be "horrific" and "embarrassing"; anything but "boring".
You make a good point about the contingency plan. Burning one's boots is an act undertaken without much forethought, as would be initiating an incestuous relationship. Walking home barefooted and ending up with an unwanted pregnancy are both the results of not having a contingency plan.