RE: (TV) New Member

[Cameron Pulley <cpulley@navicominc.com>]

"song" is really good.  it's one of those verlaine songs that's easy to
forget, but as soon as you hear it, you remember why tom is so good at
fighting crime (making music).  mary marie is like that, as well, i think.
it has great lyrics.  so does "pillow", but i think it needs to be
re-recorded.  the "tramps" version is quite interesting.  tom starts on the
chorus and then stops the song about 30 seconds in and says: "it sounds like
shit with the brushes... we're so reckless..."

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Hochstadt [mailto:Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:58 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: (TV) New Member


Rick G. wrote:
>I also think that Pillow is one of my favorite Verlaine songs of all time,
>which got me thinking.  Another one that would be up there for me would be
the
>aptly named 'Song' from Flashlight.

"Song" is one of my favorite -- well, songs, by just about anybody. 
I'm thinking of using the final lyric as an epigraph to my doctoral 
dissertation: "These difficult questions tell me a joke." I always 
hear a double meaning in that line: (a) difficult questions are, in 
their own way, funny; (b) "I'm overwhelmed by difficult questions; 
please tell me a joke to take them off my mind" (i.e., "These 
difficult questions/Tell me a joke").

- Jesse
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