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Apr. 7th, 2016 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretDear Jukebox Author,
I do not write useful dear author letters. So seriously, write whatever the fuck you want to. It is what I, too, will be doing.
My signups, for reference and with a few thoughts:
Young Moses - Josh Ritter (Song)
-I have a failed messiah fetish. I love songs about the people we invest unreasonable hopes for salvation into, how they struggle with those expectations and how they fulfill those expectations in unexpected ways. This song is a wonderful mishmash of Americana and Biblical lore, as is typical throughout this Ritter album. One of the glorious secrets of the failed messiah narrative is the discovery of the human traits that make us see messianic capability in an ordinary human being. Genius.com compares this song to a Mike Fink brag, and it's the elasticity between the phenomenal capabilities of the human soul and the outlandish abilities we assign only to God that build up so wonderful a tension in this song.
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Simon & Garfunkel (Song)
-I think ideally I'd like a story that continues the ellision of what the Mama Saw. I do not want a story that explains the mysterious language of the song, because it is so gloriously ambiguous and that is a major part of what makes it a great song.
Fangless - Sleater-Kinney (Song)
-SK is not the band it was a decade ago. They're much more interested in melody than they were back then, but I do not think that makes them fangless. I think there's a lot that can be done with taking this song literally and telling a story about its once glorious subject.
Five Years - David Bowie (Song)
-RIP David Bowie. I've been requesting songs from Ziggy Stardust nearly every year Jukebox has run. As I said, I have a failed messiah fetish. This year, the poignancy of Ziggy seems particularly acute, how Bowie's sheer charisma and musical talent promised- and sometimes delivered- a new era when music made you dance and think.
The Ash Grove - Britten/Oliphant (Song)
-Just go wild, full on melodrama is called for here.
I do not write useful dear author letters. So seriously, write whatever the fuck you want to. It is what I, too, will be doing.
My signups, for reference and with a few thoughts:
Young Moses - Josh Ritter (Song)
-I have a failed messiah fetish. I love songs about the people we invest unreasonable hopes for salvation into, how they struggle with those expectations and how they fulfill those expectations in unexpected ways. This song is a wonderful mishmash of Americana and Biblical lore, as is typical throughout this Ritter album. One of the glorious secrets of the failed messiah narrative is the discovery of the human traits that make us see messianic capability in an ordinary human being. Genius.com compares this song to a Mike Fink brag, and it's the elasticity between the phenomenal capabilities of the human soul and the outlandish abilities we assign only to God that build up so wonderful a tension in this song.
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Simon & Garfunkel (Song)
-I think ideally I'd like a story that continues the ellision of what the Mama Saw. I do not want a story that explains the mysterious language of the song, because it is so gloriously ambiguous and that is a major part of what makes it a great song.
Fangless - Sleater-Kinney (Song)
-SK is not the band it was a decade ago. They're much more interested in melody than they were back then, but I do not think that makes them fangless. I think there's a lot that can be done with taking this song literally and telling a story about its once glorious subject.
Five Years - David Bowie (Song)
-RIP David Bowie. I've been requesting songs from Ziggy Stardust nearly every year Jukebox has run. As I said, I have a failed messiah fetish. This year, the poignancy of Ziggy seems particularly acute, how Bowie's sheer charisma and musical talent promised- and sometimes delivered- a new era when music made you dance and think.
The Ash Grove - Britten/Oliphant (Song)
-Just go wild, full on melodrama is called for here.