30 Day Song Challenge Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love
I wouldn’t say “love” but it’s true, I still once in a blue moon get out that Bush album...! And most of the time I can’t get past the textbook-emo-college-kid whiny singing in Mineral (sorry R!), but when I can I gotta admit the actual music, at least from End Serenading, is really pretty great and reminiscent of Sunny Day Real Estate's better moments (never again my dear/shall we come dancing here).
Also, this song speaks to a category I wish the monthly challenge had included--"song you love by a band you otherwise normally aren't that into (these days, anyway)." I used to listen to this over and over obsessively in college, and I still like it a lot despite being over Blur otherwise since high school...
Ohohoh and as for one hit wonders I don't mind! Failure's "Stuck on You" and yeah, Boston's "More Than a Feeling" (I love that R is kinda with me on the latter, heh).
When Mount Vicious covered "Just What I Needed" it kind of sealed the deal for me about that song too, after months of trepidation push-pull listening to it on my iPod ever since R used it for synth trivia and the sunny afternoon it came on Pandora while I was cooking...the chorus is still, alas, hard to salvage, but the lyrics have this great tongue-in-cheek-clever-acknowledgment smartass-y quality I find charming as all get out.
And I don't think Live Through This-era Hole is that bad, even looking back now. It's a pretty apt trashy history and bad-thoughts-n'-all-desperation teenage girl diary--she has all the right mythology and little seamy picturesque details right. The music is maybe weak but it works as a diorama piece.
Also, this song speaks to a category I wish the monthly challenge had included--"song you love by a band you otherwise normally aren't that into (these days, anyway)." I used to listen to this over and over obsessively in college, and I still like it a lot despite being over Blur otherwise since high school...
Ohohoh and as for one hit wonders I don't mind! Failure's "Stuck on You" and yeah, Boston's "More Than a Feeling" (I love that R is kinda with me on the latter, heh).
When Mount Vicious covered "Just What I Needed" it kind of sealed the deal for me about that song too, after months of trepidation push-pull listening to it on my iPod ever since R used it for synth trivia and the sunny afternoon it came on Pandora while I was cooking...the chorus is still, alas, hard to salvage, but the lyrics have this great tongue-in-cheek-clever-acknowledgment smartass-y quality I find charming as all get out.
And I don't think Live Through This-era Hole is that bad, even looking back now. It's a pretty apt trashy history and bad-thoughts-n'-all-desperation teenage girl diary--she has all the right mythology and little seamy picturesque details right. The music is maybe weak but it works as a diorama piece.