An aimless rambling amongst the canyons of your mind, not a serious program of work.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Great Songs of the '80s: Sonic Youth's Shadow of a Doubt
Sonic Youth makes explicit the subterranean connections between Hitchcock's Shadow of A Doubt and Strangers on a Train. Both films feature trains, and have both have hauntingly disturbed and insinuating villains (Bruno, Uncle Charlie) who are also disturbing duals of their respective sympathetic leads (Guy, Young Charlie).
While much of the lyrical content of SY's song draws directly on SOAT (albeit straightened), Kim Gordon's breathy voice places the song's perspective behind the fearful eyes and tortured imaginings of SOAD's Young Charlie. It's as if Young Charlie has grown up to become Guy, but without leaving childhood behind. And what is childhood but a dream from a thousand years ago? asks Gordon. A flat-out spooky masterpiece.
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Lyrics:
Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
Must a been a dream
From a thousand years ago
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
From the bottom of my heart
He was looking all over me
Together everafter
He said "You take me and I'll be you"
"You kill him and I'll kill her"
Kiss me
I swear it wasn't meant to be
I swear I didn't mean it
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
It's just a dream
It's just a dream i had
Nononoooooh
Swear it's just a dream
Just a dream
Dream i've had
No No No No
Take me to it
Take me to her
Maybe Maybe it's just a dream
It's a dream
It's just a
Just a
No
Met a stranger on a train
Bumped right into me
Swear i didn't mean it
Swear it wasn't meant to be
Must've been a dream
From a thousand years ago
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Underrated Abba
10 excellent songs beyond Gold and More Gold (the embedded video below is a youtube playlist of these tracks):
- If It Wasn't For The Nights
- My Love, My Life
- Gonna Sing You My Love Song
- Disillusion
- Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
- Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
- The Piper
- Dum Dum Diddle
- Hey Hey Helen
- I'm a Marionette
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