Today's song is...
Where Your Eyes Don't Go
Great guitar part. Really great guitar part. I think I've always felt a little like this is one of the songs I just don't quite "get" so I don't try and just sit back and enjoy the guitar and the twisty, turny lyrics.
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Hey, this song came on my TMBG shuffle play during my commute today. Actually, come to think of it, Lincoln was pretty heavily represented on my random play today. Weird. I love how this song has dark and creepy lyrics set to an upbeat, catchy melody. I know that's not exactly uncommon for the band, but this is a classic, early example. And those twisty, turny lyrics seemed super-cool when I was in high school. :-)
ReplyDeleteIn tenth grade, my AP World teacher, who I also had for homeroom, would put up an interesting quote on the board each morning. At some point in the year she put me in charge of it. So I had a lot of fun finding quotes and using favorite lines from things, and so on. At some point, I quoted "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of."
ReplyDeleteEven 16 year old me thought it was a great line.
Yay! :D Oh, how I love this one!
ReplyDeleteThe album version is lovely, but my favorite is the BBC version featured on podcast 33A. Its tempo is faster and it's less "swingy" and more...locomotive? (If that makes ANY sense at all.)
The first time I heard this song was when I found a live performance video of it on YouTube. The video is excellent -- it's from an earlier performance of the song, maybe 1988 or 1990 (I can't remember for sure). Linnell's hair is amazing and the audio quality is quite good for a video from a live show. I read in the comments that there was a similar version of the song on podcast 33A (which was the first time I'd even heard of the podcasts, I think) and had to download it.
Other than that, what I have to say about the song is basically a repeat of what has already been said -- GREAT guitar part, wonderful example of dark-lyrics-with-an-upbeat-melody, and my favorite line is the one Erin quoted. One of my very favorite TMBG songs, for sure. :)
It took me a while to get into this song. I never really liked it too much until I started hearing it live a lot last year. All those weird words and twisty lyrics make it pretty fun to sing.
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