+ this song is from a Merge complication, called Score! which features bands like The National, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, but not a very good complication. It's got some weird songs. + I love both Jens Lekman and Tracey Thorn, and I love this song. This is such a great collaboration covering a great song.
+ this is such a true and funny song originally by The Magnetic Fields from the "69 Love Songs", a massive album that contains literally 69 love songs.
Are you out of love with me? Are you longing to be free? Do I drive you up a tree? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Do I drive you up the wall? Do you dread every phone call? Can you not stand me at all? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Though I need you more than air is it true you just don't care? Are you having an affair? Yeah! Oh, yeah! When we met I thought money was everything so I let you buy the house, the car, the ring but I can't take your perpetual whining and you can't sing I though if we live apart we could made a brand-new start Do you want to break my heart? Yeah! Oh, yeah! I've enjoyed making you miserable for years found peace of mind in playing on your fears How I loved to catch your gold and silver tears, but now my dear What a dark and dreary life Are you reaching for a knife? Could you really kill your wife? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Of, I die, I die, I die! So it's over, you and I Was my whole life just a lie? Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Truly great things always happen way ahead of its time, therefore it's hard for everyone to accept the genius of it at the time. Often the great things would stand on its own, and not fade away. There's a long history of it. Particularly for painters, musicians, directors...all the art-related stuffs. Recently, I've discovered a lot of great stuffs, The Velvet Underground and Nico's, Fellini's films, Godard's films, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless... these things were not made for its time, they were made for the future. Those people really have a vision of their own. I now came to appreciate their genius, partly because of their history (if they are shit and got sunk in the time, I wouldn't have a chance to know them). And mostly I really like them and not for the fame's sake. So when the next big thing comes up, would I appreciate it? I don't know, I hope so.