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[seekingferret]

Dear Jukebox Hero,

I don't really know what to say in this letter. My taste in musical is pretty broad and I have tended to classify my overriding interest to be the 'glorious failure'. I like music that is ambitious, even if it doesn't always completely hang together. And I like music that tells stories, and I like thinking about what stories mean.


Dark Fantasy - Kanye West (Song)

Such a brilliant song, such a brilliant calling card for Kanye. It's about Kanye as Producer as much as it is about Kanye as Rapper- Kanye doesn't see himself as a performer so much as he sees himself as a Creator, I think, and this song is all about staking out all of that territory.

I'm not expecting RPF, certainly, but I would figure it's impossible to totally erase Kanye's shadow from this song. But I particularly love the final verse, with its macabre visions of devils in unlikely places, and I would love a story that fleshed out that prophetic 'fantasy'.

Rincon - Dan Bern (Song)

My new favorite baseball song, it's about a person making an almost religious pilgrimage to a small California seaside town to try to catch a glimpse of their tarnished hero, Barry Bonds. Bonds is making his own pilgrimage in search of 'the magic cure', the medical or pseudomedical or outright fake treatment that promises to once more prolong his improbable and ambiguous baseball career.

Bridges and Balloons - Joanna Newsom (Song)

I think this is practically the perfect ode to wanderlust and the adventuring spirit, and I just love how Newsom's language informs the shape of her dreamscape.

The Sprawl - Sonic Youth (Song)

I'm interested in its vague connections to the Gibsonverse, which takes what would otherwise be a passionate. grounded, specific Kim Gordon lyric, a lyric that seems pretty clearly to be about Sonic Youth's New York environs, and gives it a broader science fictional context.

The Singer Addresses His Audience - The Decemberists (Song)

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. An explication of the wedding incident? A grounding of the surreality of these lyrics in the reality of the Decemberists' grappling with fame? Another story about The Singer?

Chips Ahoy - The Hold Steady (Song)

I love how this is basically a Ray Bradbury story in song form, a little miniature fantasy about a girl who can predict the future and uses it to win gambling on horse races and score drugs.

Foreign Object - The Mountain Goats (Song)

If you choose to write for this song, I personally will stab you in the eye with a foreign object.



Thanks!