no seriously guys - ac newman's "on the table"

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i dont exactly know what it is about this one that kills me every time, but this is totally in my top 3 songs of 2004. its something about the new-porno tone of the guitars, mixed with the relatively simple-sounding piano. its poignant and punchy in all the right places.

by the way, im hoping for exactly one more new pornographers album. anybody heard anything about this possibility?

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

know nothing about new album, but the song in question is classiznic.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Totally classic. And used to great effect during the opening segment of a recent episode of "The O.C."

― ng, Monday, 10 January 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Looking for a source to give you, but I read recently that the New Porno's were currently recording the new disc (because Neko has a solo studio album coming out soon and will be touring for a year, so Newman wanted to record all her parts before she got super busy)

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Is this song on the album?
I haven't really cottoned to the LP, but "Miracle Drug" is as a great a song as any of his others, and I guess I'll have to give this one a closer listen.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

whoa - i had no idea it was on the OC... yeah, huk - its song 3 on the slow wonder. im glad everyone agrees on this. way to go, everyone.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

i wish you'd started this thread sooner, maybe i would've included this song on my pand j ballot...totally great, totally forgot about it.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

It's not that great, is it? It just sounds like a pleasant less-hyper New Pornographers song.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

One of the few songs on the album that I really like a lot.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

OTM on your description, nabisco, but if it were on either of the NP albums, i think id still put it in the top 3 or 4 of the album. and that qualifies it as totally great in my book.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I like this song a lot - and Slow Wonder was unfairly slept on.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

drink to me, babe, then. no, seriously.

― ebrecht, Monday, 10 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

no, SERIOUSLY.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm amused at how teen dramas have killed the video music star.

seriously... OC, smallville, etc etc... where else to see dizze rascal/walkmen/ac newman video? not on mtv surely. no, the teen drama!

i like "the town halo" more i think. cello as booty bass.
m.

― msp (msp), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

"town halo" was my favorite until "on the table" asserted itself...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

"on the table" is rather assertive... down right forward, imho.
m.

― msp (msp), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

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no seriously guys - ac newman's "on the table" - SERIOUSLY GUYS.