06-21-2016, 09:41 PM
... Is a line from Green Eggs and Ham. #justsaying
Here, in the Dark
06-22-2016, 12:11 PM
Say it, brother!
The song's chorus is terrific, catchy stuff - marred, IMHO, by the reverb irritatingly applied to the backing vocals, which makes the overall sound muddier than it should be. Another blemish, I feel, is that Gord refuses just to hold the note ('daaaaark'), which would be much more satisfying, and instead keeps f**king with it.
The song has a great coda...tonally very different from the catchy chorus. This tonal ambiguity (which also marks the shift from chorus to instrumental break) may be a lingering echo of what Rob baker talked about in that Sirius interview, where he said the producers were arguing among themselves over whether this song needed to be cranked into up-tempo overdrive, or to be given a spacier, atmospheric treatment. The issue is never completely resolved. That said, this complexity suits the lyrical sentiments (which oscillate between gloom and hope), although it does deprive us of what might otherwise be a classic, straight-ahead, toe-tapping Hip anthem.
Incidentally: "Me, I'm as happy as my least happy kid" is a frigging fantastic line. Killer Downie. :thumb:
The song's chorus is terrific, catchy stuff - marred, IMHO, by the reverb irritatingly applied to the backing vocals, which makes the overall sound muddier than it should be. Another blemish, I feel, is that Gord refuses just to hold the note ('daaaaark'), which would be much more satisfying, and instead keeps f**king with it.
The song has a great coda...tonally very different from the catchy chorus. This tonal ambiguity (which also marks the shift from chorus to instrumental break) may be a lingering echo of what Rob baker talked about in that Sirius interview, where he said the producers were arguing among themselves over whether this song needed to be cranked into up-tempo overdrive, or to be given a spacier, atmospheric treatment. The issue is never completely resolved. That said, this complexity suits the lyrical sentiments (which oscillate between gloom and hope), although it does deprive us of what might otherwise be a classic, straight-ahead, toe-tapping Hip anthem.
Incidentally: "Me, I'm as happy as my least happy kid" is a frigging fantastic line. Killer Downie. :thumb:
06-22-2016, 03:14 PM
Killer Whale Tank Wrote:Incidentally: "Me, I'm as happy as my least happy kid" is a frigging fantastic line. Killer Downie. :thumb:
I absolutely love that he didn't phrase it as "Me, I'm ONLY as happy as my least happy kid". The latter suggests a father would be unhappy if his child was unhappy. Nice room temperature water statement (this water is so room temperature! I can't even feel it in my mouth!). But Downie leaves it ambiguity-riddled. How happy is a happy kid? How happy is the least happy kid? Is the least happy kid, still happy? Is the father of the least happy kid, still happy? Which unfolds its origami of meaning into "can you have brain cancer and still be a happy father" (I know he wrote it before he was diagnosed).
Say, in the dark? Here, in the dark? Would you, could you in the dark?
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