Light Up - Tegan and Sara
If you're going to write a song to/for your mom, you can't do any better than this.
(You know, every goddamn musician needs to listen to this to understand that when something is good, it carries itself on pure vocals and a simple set of strings and nothing more. This is also my favorite of all their songs, which means it edged out about nine or ten other 'favorites'.)
***
The kid's been a long time fan of They Might Be Giants, first because of their Here Comes The ABCs DVD/CD (which, side note, helped us through many a miserable mealtimes during those nightmarish months and months of food issues), and then their Here Comes Science DVD/CD. A few weeks ago he heard this song on a mix CD someone made me a long time ago, and became immediately enamored of it intially for the title and then for the part about being a snake head eating the head etc.
My possibly inappropriate maternal sense of humor makes me laugh every time he belts out the first couple of lines. Every single time.
(And it really wasn't until L. pointed it out that I fully realized there's another immediate line in there that would probably raise the eyebrows of a few of his classmates' eyebrows, should he feel the need to teach them the song. Then again, I had to put up with him finally asking who Jesus is and listening to a hilarious interpretation of the resurrection, courtesy of his self-appointed girlfriend at school, so I figure it's quite fair for him to use less than appropriate language and, in fact, expected: don't the good pious girls always secretly go for the foul mouthed heathens?)
I Palindrome I (live) - They Might Be Giants
No comments:
Post a Comment