Another lyric
Today's lyric is from the Smiths, "Ask Me Ask Me Ask Me" (discussion to follow):
"If there's something you'd like to try, if there's something you'd like to try... ask me I won't say 'no,' how could I?"
(which is for my wife...) and then the very appropriate:
"If it's not love, then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together."
(which is for George W)
Now, admittedly, quoting Smiths lyrics on my blog page ain't going to win me any points with the fellas. I mean, I'm not going to be driving with a guy friend and belting out, "Spending warm summer days, indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg." Maybe some Drowning Pool ("Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor")... maybe... but not Smiths. No, Smiths songs are ones you can sing ONLY to your wife - or your kids, because they're goofy and (usually) harmless enough.
But I have to admit, as fruity as it sounds (not that there's anything wrong with that), I really like the Smiths. Maybe it's because their songs are so... singable... and the lyrics are so strange and memorable; or maybe it's because they were the first band I actually got into that didn't have a double-bass drummer... I don't know. But whatever the reason, the Smiths are the one band (and I guess Rush, to a lesser extent), that I have listened to consistently from high school until (and beyond) now.
Am I alone here? Somebody help me out and 'fess up. Please, I'm starting to feel a little insecure. : )
"If there's something you'd like to try, if there's something you'd like to try... ask me I won't say 'no,' how could I?"
(which is for my wife...) and then the very appropriate:
"If it's not love, then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together."
(which is for George W)
Now, admittedly, quoting Smiths lyrics on my blog page ain't going to win me any points with the fellas. I mean, I'm not going to be driving with a guy friend and belting out, "Spending warm summer days, indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg." Maybe some Drowning Pool ("Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor")... maybe... but not Smiths. No, Smiths songs are ones you can sing ONLY to your wife - or your kids, because they're goofy and (usually) harmless enough.
But I have to admit, as fruity as it sounds (not that there's anything wrong with that), I really like the Smiths. Maybe it's because their songs are so... singable... and the lyrics are so strange and memorable; or maybe it's because they were the first band I actually got into that didn't have a double-bass drummer... I don't know. But whatever the reason, the Smiths are the one band (and I guess Rush, to a lesser extent), that I have listened to consistently from high school until (and beyond) now.
Am I alone here? Somebody help me out and 'fess up. Please, I'm starting to feel a little insecure. : )
2 Comments:
Please don't use smiley faces in your blog. Smiley faces do not help your case when professing your love for a girly song.
But on to my response; I've never heard a Smith's song and after your review, I plan on buying every single Smith's album ... ever.
Love, love, love the Smiths. Almost as much as I love, love, love, love the Clash. But I'm a girl.
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