The following are not my words, they are those of Adam Duritz.
Wise and dreadlocked.
This is for that girl who decided to let me know she thought dashboard confessional sucked as I walked towards St. Mark's place however long ago that was.
Feast on it.
For instance, I think Chris Carrabba is a great songwriter. I think Dashboard Confessional is a great band. I hadn’t heard of them until Gil Norton (see Recovering The Satellites (1996)) told me he was going to make an album with them but (and take this with a grain of salt since I pretty much worship the ground Gil walks on-if you agree, let’s hang out and that’ll be our “scene”, I guess) I think A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (2003) is a fabulous album (and, as I later discovered, so are The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and The Swiss Army Romance). I was flattered to be asked and proud to be on Dusk and Summer (2006).Then a little while later I started hearing all about something called “Emo”. Now I’m not saying Chris started the movement; I’m just saying he was the first I heard of it. I have to admit I was a little more inclined to like Emo than any other scene just because Emo is short for “emotional” (I think) and I like the idea of music that has actual feelings involved in it. I was starting to get really worn out by “irony”. It’s just too easy to be clever and NOT care.
So, in “Hands Down“, the opening song from A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar when Chris sings:Hands down, this is the best day I can ever remember
Always remember the sound of the stereo
The dim of the soft lights
The scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers
And the time on the clock when we leave cause it’s so late
And it’s one thing we shared together
The streets were wet and the gate was locked
So I jumped in and I let you in
And you stood at the door with your hands on my waist
And you kissed me like you meant it
And I knew that you meant it
I know that he means it. I really do because there’s too many details for it to mean anything else. “Hands down, this is the best day I can ever remember” might seem like a corny line in the hands of someone else but not when Chris sings it and DEFINITELY not when ANY songwriter follows that line with the 10 lines that follow it in this song (even if I got some of the lines wrong). So if that’s “emo”, count me in.
Long live AD and DC
4 comments:
This is all true. Now all we need Duritz to write about is the second coming of Dylan that has an album coming out next week. All hail king Conor.
(I agree about DC too)
Also... (via pitchfork)
Faces will melt as Sam Beam delivers the latest Iron and Wine single-- the first off forthcoming LP The Shepherd's Dog-- on July 10 via Sub Pop. "Boy With a Coin" includes a single edit of that Dog cut, along with two exclusive jams from the Shepherd sessions.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Despite your cheerleading for Dashboard, I'd like to make sure you know you can go to the U.S. Post Office website (www.usps.gov) and vote for a Star Wars stamp.
Also, Adam Duritz seems like an awesome guy, but his songs never excited me. I'm a regular parade-rainer.
Ok, let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song "Rocket Man?"
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