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...seem to belong on a plane completely separate from our own. So when she opens this 1991 track with the words “Oh hey Robert / you’re driving much too fucking fast,” her casual cuss strikes me as especially enticing. That the song??s a metapoetic description of a terrible car crash killing all of the members of the band in their Ford Escort (“In heaven there’ll be Heavenly tonight...”) does little to overshadow the sexiness of her f-bomb, with that...
...startlingly, well, boned; if One is proto-Pixies, Two is plush-parallel-universe Pixies. Gone is the ruggedness of even the originals’ instrumentation, replaced instead by electronic tones and effects slipped over unexpected delay-echoed muted horns and muffled acousto-electric guitars. “The Holiday Song?? and “Is She Weird?” are particularly affected by these new arrangements, though in the case of the latter, and elsewhere, only moderately effective. Mr. Black was assisted in the Disc Two project by art-punkers Two Pale Boys, and it is evident...
...sight of the John Harvard statue dressed in Red Sox gear, the chants and screams from excited friends and singing along with the band to “10,000 Men of Harvard”—though not exactly a Red Sox song??were a great experience...
...Kevin.” The latter is a truer exercise in pathetic bitterness than anything Rob might summon, as it insults new-guy Kevin’s job, threatens him, questions his ex’s mother’s opinion of him but still confesses at the song??s apex: “I just can’t bear to imagine you sharing a bed with him!” Their lyrics, more so than those of the Smiths, told more than a song??s title and frequently outlined rather complicated situations. Take...
...outdoors. Our hearts would race through the Eamon’s emotions receiving the phone call in the recording studio revealing his girlfriend’s infidelity (“You even gave him head,” Eamon rails to the song??s ex-lover), reflecting on the relationship’s good times (“I even said you were my number one”) and confronting his cheating lover in a Bronx pizzeria, at one point forcefully thrusting the pizza off the table belting out the following unforgettable chorus: “Fuck...