cowpies and roadkill are excluded from this offer
their sunshine faces

Edith's post on Cocteau Twins' lyrics inspired me to find a site with lyrics for a similarly unintelligible band, My Bloody Valentine. I had always thought that the line from "When You Sleep" was "When I look at you/ Ohhhh, I don't know we're through," but the site insists the lyrics are, "When I look at you/ Oh, I don't know what's (true)." The site does acknowledge that MBV's lyrics have a degree of ambiguity saying, "the lyrics are not as important to the sonic structure of the songs as they are in traditional recording techniques."

In related news, I received word yesterday that the Austin Shoegazer Meetup is canceled this month for lack of interest. Considering the latest issue of Magnet has a feature on the shoegazer revival, surely there are at least five shoegazer fans in the ATX that want to get coffee and discuss Movable Type, effects pedals, or whatever it is shoegazer fans talk about.

Posted by McChris at June 26, 2003 10:25 PM
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'Ambiguity' must be the key word for this week, eh? That was a hilarious story about the manager guy, by the way. I think I would've busted out laughing. There's one like that in every workplace.

Posted by: edith at June 26, 2003 10:54 PM

My knowledge is stuck with Cocteau Twins, the only band I ever stole from my radio days in Shreveport. No one else could appriciate it...I almost took the Bauhaus as well, but the cyberculture professor requested it once. How did he know it was even there?

Posted by: rolin at June 26, 2003 10:55 PM

Yes, Edith, "abiguity" is the word of the week. Next week will be "indeterminacy," and I'm mulling over "nomadology" for the following week.

Posted by: m4dd4wg at June 26, 2003 11:18 PM

288 shoegazer fans worldwide? sweet jesus!

that's 30 more than there are livejournalers interested in "shoegazer"...

this is a force to be reckoned with!

Posted by: clare at June 27, 2003 11:07 AM
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