More on Have One on Me
When first listening to this album, I was admittedly a bit uncomfortable with the fact that I did find it to meander. But now that I know it better, I've decided that this is wrong; because I think now that the album charts the story of someone who meets a boy and who becomes infatuated (as teenagers do) ('Easy'), falls in love ('Good Intentions Paving Company'), finds herself in a long-term serious relationship before slowly falling out of love ('On a Good Day,' 'In California,' 'Jackrabbits'), and who finally, after building up the strength to end a relationship in which nothing has really gone wrong, but which has just turned stale ('Autumn,' I think), leaves him ('Does not Suffice').
I'm pretty sure something like this is what's going on - it does explain the preponderance of love songs. Does it make sense to you? What I'm more interested in, though, is the place of the songs whose relevance to this story (or meaning at all) I can't discern: 'Have One on Me,' ''81,' 'You and Me, Bess.' And I don't know the lyrics nearly well enough to know what any of the details of the story are beyond this. Any ideas? I'm especially curious about 'Have One on Me;' I have not a clue about what it means.
Incidentally, I've noticed that, recently, my musical tastes are about 50% classical music (and the breadth of this I'm happy with - Schubert to Kapustin to Ligeti this week) and 50% Joanna Newsom. This strikes me as really peculiar. One would expect that if one spends that much time listening to one artist, the other music one listens to would sound something similar; but no. Not a bit of it. Perhaps it's a phase (a beautiful phase).
I'm pretty sure something like this is what's going on - it does explain the preponderance of love songs. Does it make sense to you? What I'm more interested in, though, is the place of the songs whose relevance to this story (or meaning at all) I can't discern: 'Have One on Me,' ''81,' 'You and Me, Bess.' And I don't know the lyrics nearly well enough to know what any of the details of the story are beyond this. Any ideas? I'm especially curious about 'Have One on Me;' I have not a clue about what it means.
Incidentally, I've noticed that, recently, my musical tastes are about 50% classical music (and the breadth of this I'm happy with - Schubert to Kapustin to Ligeti this week) and 50% Joanna Newsom. This strikes me as really peculiar. One would expect that if one spends that much time listening to one artist, the other music one listens to would sound something similar; but no. Not a bit of it. Perhaps it's a phase (a beautiful phase).