 | PlanetaryGear (53)
04/10/2006 | I've never heard any live version of this song, but some very effective techniques are employed in the studio version: etheral lyrics and Tweedy's dynamic vocals, which work with various sound effects, including a busy synthesizer and piano, fuzzy bassline and a booming bass drum, that all culminate into, what I can only describe as an "orgasmic" crescendo at roughly the halfway-point through the song. Followed by an eerie calm, were all the sonic components seem to go flat for a whole bar and ends with them working off of each other to create a collage of sonic-goodness. As I said: very effective, and quite evocative that lended some pleasent imagery to the whole listening experience: a good song to listen to in the pre-dawn hours while going for a drive as your sweetheart quietly dozes off in the passenger seat next to you.... that's the imagery that I got out of it, anyway.
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 | magellan (174)
04/10/2006 | This song gets me fired up, I think because of it's repetition.
When Tweedy bangs this one out live and jumps octaves on the vocals, it's pretty impressive. Sometimes we all need a shot in the arm.
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 | jder (1)
05/22/2003 | some of the over-produced music and some seemingly weak lyrics (i.e., that whole verse with the guitar-neck metaphor and the cheap "C"/"sea" rhyme) take away from an otherwise good song. the lyrics, however, have some saving graces: "the ash tray says you were up all night" and "what you once were isn't what you want to be, anymore" have a striking poetic simplicity. it's a good song, but i sometimes find myself waiting for it to end so that i can move on to the much more moving, aching, and emotionally satisfying "we're just friends" -- even if that one does sound a bit too much like a beatles/mccartney song.
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