Song of the Day - Day 473

Today's song is...


Climbing The Walls


Up until about one minute ago, I was under the impression that I had heard all of The Else live except for Feign Amnesia which has never been played. But I just realized that I have somehow, all this time, never realized that I never heard Climbing The Walls either. What a depressing realization. (Ok, not depressing in the grand scheme of things but I do think it's sad.) This is now shooting onto my bucket list.

I quite enjoy the lyrics of this song. When I get really out of sorts, especially when I am headed to work in one of those moods, one of the lines my head tends to repeat is "It got so bad, I quit my job/ now I got a new job climbing the walls." And the following lyric is one of my all time favorites: "The deep end/ the deep end/ people talk a lot but they don't know/ they pretend/ they pretend/ they don't really know how deep it goes."

Musically, the song also has several of the elements that I really love about The Else in general. Really grungy sounding guitars and fuzz-tastic bass. Clear piano chords, horns and solid drums. And a very full arrangement with all those elements and then some layered together. And it does that thing where the last guitar/bass notes fade out at the end which I enjoy. And makes such a nice contrast with the quiet beginning of Careful What Your Pack which follows.