UnquietDreams
Suma Cum Louder
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2023
- Posts
- 16,661
Day 3 - Song for New Year’s Celebration
A band with punctuation in its name! Making up for yesterday's song with punctuation in the title that lacked punctuation marks...
Los Campesinos! is an indie Twee Pop band from Wales with a Spanish name, which is apropos of nothing. Gareth Paisey, the lead singer and glockenspieler (glockenspielist?), said that if they hand known the band would last when they formed at Cardiff University, they would have put more thought into the name (which means "the peasants").
I just love the opening line:
"You said, "Send me stationary to make me horny"
So I always write you letters in multicolours
Decorating envelopes for foreplay
Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away."
A song about looking over a year, and a relationship, and refusing to make lists while making lists, it is a bit darker than most Twee Pop, a moniker they rejected later. But using the gang vocals allows they to turn a sweet sentiment into a much more bitter one: "I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you."
"My Year in Lists," Los Campesinos!
(You said, "Send me stationary to make me horny" -- sorry, I love that line!)
A band with punctuation in its name! Making up for yesterday's song with punctuation in the title that lacked punctuation marks...
Los Campesinos! is an indie Twee Pop band from Wales with a Spanish name, which is apropos of nothing. Gareth Paisey, the lead singer and glockenspieler (glockenspielist?), said that if they hand known the band would last when they formed at Cardiff University, they would have put more thought into the name (which means "the peasants").
I just love the opening line:
"You said, "Send me stationary to make me horny"
So I always write you letters in multicolours
Decorating envelopes for foreplay
Damn extended metaphors, I get carried away."
A song about looking over a year, and a relationship, and refusing to make lists while making lists, it is a bit darker than most Twee Pop, a moniker they rejected later. But using the gang vocals allows they to turn a sweet sentiment into a much more bitter one: "I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you."
"My Year in Lists," Los Campesinos!
(You said, "Send me stationary to make me horny" -- sorry, I love that line!)
