Sometimes you're a stranger in my bed
Don't know if you love me, or you want me dead
Push me away, push me away
Then beg me to stay, beg me to stay, yeah
This is so a (rivalmance) Fenhawke song, hehe. It also has a pretty catchy baseline.
I'll try my best, how much do I invest?
Like cardiac arrest, high voltage when we kiss
An ear worm! I listened to this on my way to work and it was the background music to my whole day
I also like that in their Spotify summary there's a quote from NYLON saying, "the sort of rock that we just never get enough of" because it kind of sounds like a dig to me, but it's also true. The album this song is on has a few more good songs on it.
And boy, you know I've tried to pray
I've bruised my knees
I've tried to bring you back to me
Another break up song that I enjoy :^)c
For this one I enjoy the pop-yness and its repetition of the chorus means it's not bogged down too much by bad verses and let's me put it on repeat with no qualms, but there is a line in there that I don't care for lmao. I just don't like the use of the word "belly" it pulls me out.
I need you closer
Or I need it over
I love how the last pre-chorus changes to past tense in this song. I love breaking up my OTPs so this song is another one in a ship playlist.
So many stories we were told about a safety net
But when I look for it
It's just a hand that's holding mine
This song is interesting because it has like a Latin beat, pop lyrics & vocals, and then some alt pop harmonizing??? Idk if it quite works, but I do find it interesting and I have assigned it to one of my ships so I have to listen to it whether I like it or not because it makes me think of them :^)
I've been listening to this all week. The Jazz Hop Café has other themed albums worth checking out too.
I know that even with the seams stitched tightly, darling
scars will remain
I say we scrape them from each other, darling
and let them wash off in the rain
And when they run into the river, oh no, let the water not complain
This tweet reminded me of this song. One time I was driving my mom somewhere when this song came up on my playlist and she said, "What the hell?" because of the vocals, lol. I love the poetry of this song and that he's not singing it particularly well.
T’as versé sur ton cœur
Un peu de vitriol
Un peu de sucre en poudre
This is the first song I ever understood in French :^D and I think it sounds so good, I love it.
Fun music poem meme going around.
Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title
You fear the cold at last?
( You fear the cold at last? )Ummmmm, rather bleak lol. I have noticed that a lot of songs I listen to are about winter/coldness so of course that crops up in the shuffle 😂 I like sad music, to no one's surprise.
I'm a little annoyed that the Glass Animals song at the end of the first stanza is already a broken line in the song "your face awakened" with awakened being in the next line. Also! I want to note that "I break it" refers to breaking bad news not physical damage, what an interesting line.
The only NIN song I ever heard when I was younger was "The Hand That Feeds". And that is such a shame because literally every other song of theirs before that is better.
"The Hand That Feeds" is such a 2005 song lol. It's good, but trite as hell compared to the rest of their music. Odd man out, seriously! Even the rest of With Teeth sounds nothing like it. "Every Day is Exactly the Same" kiiiinda straddles the line if you press me on it, but it wasn't originally on the album afaik. Whoever bought With Teeth for "The Hand that Feeds" HAD to be disappointed by the rest of the album lmao.
September 2021 I listened to NIN's album Pretty Hate Machine for the first time because I randomly read a review for it at Late to the Game and I felt, aptly, late to the game. It's so damn good I felt cheated for being tricked by "The Hand That Feeds" into thinking NIN only made that specific kind of music. Even back then I'd had enough of it from other places.
It wasn't easy for me to get introduced to new music in 2005. I didn't have internet, access to a computer, or an MP3 player yet. Anything (English) I listened to I had to have first heard on MTV at 3 o'clock in the morning and then saved to buy the CD for my walkman otherwise I just listened to my sister's CDs (and she has never been into rock, the poor soul). Eventually I got a PSP to replace my walkman and used my cousin's PS3 to rip music, but I still needed the CDs and to hear the song in the first place. If I had heard "The Only Time" in 2005 I WOULD HAVE BEEN A NIN FAN MUCH SOONER.
I love Pretty Hate Machine so much I bought it in vinyl when I didn't even have a record player yet because I wanted it to be special. I ended up getting a few more records of my favorite albums too and I love them. So thanks Pretty Hate Machine; and kind of curse you "The Hand That Feeds" though I'll still listen to it.
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