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#120 [#25]:

Name: The Trapeze Swinger
Origin: Iron and Wine
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7O8gDy0DA" data-time="

Nominator: NBIceman (9/15)

(8, 9.5, 7)

[Its an experience, but a very draining one... I have to take a break from this after listening to it, because



My first impression ends there, without even a closing bracket. I honestly can't tell you if that was an intentional decision, if I was just too drained to bother finishing the thought, or if I just got distracted and forgot to finish typing. Believe whichever of those most amuses you, I guess?

This is a song I need to be in the right mood to appreciate. It's great, but we're looking at nine and a half minutes of a very slow, sad, melancholic song of the deceased looking back at their life. It's very emotionally touching...when I'm in the mood to deal with that.

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#119 [#70]:

Name: Head Home
Origin: Midlake
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQMHBy3NvQ" data-time="

Nominator: NBIceman (8/15)

(8, 8, 7)

[Very good, but it goes way over my head. The song is all first compose an essay on Thomas Hobbes Leviathan and its view of society, then use that knowledge to inform your opinion on the likely views of the character in the song reading the book and Im really not up for that.]

"Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil"

...Can I go back to chasing my tail and barking at things yet?

I get about as far as that title before losing any interest in trying to comprehend this song. I could probably force my way through that book if I had to (or at least through enough relevant articles about it to bluff my way through a conversation), but it would be difficult and doesn't seem like a subject matter I'd enjoy studying. Also, it would require spending far more time researching things than any other song on the list--the ranking will never be finished if I have to do college level research just to properly comprehend the reference in one line of one song.

...I can't even take enjoyment in the fact that the song goes over a lot of other people's heads as well. Try searching for a meaning and you'll find lots of people convinced this is a very happy song about the simple things in life, which I'm pretty sure it isn't? The line about the town struggling to help the farmers would seem to preclude this being happy--as does the general intensity of the song. It's too frantic, right? Way too frantic and the singer seems to be desperately begging to go home in the outro. If I really have a better grasp on the song than the average person, that...is troubling, to be quite honest.

...Right; well once you get past the fact that I'll never fully understand it and the worry about how no one else does either, you're left with a song that is still good. Good band, good singer. I'm even forgiving the repetition during the outro, as it is that faced-paced music & single-minded desperation that truly makes the song. I just find it a bit too depressing in all possible respects to listen to it often.

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