THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL

Great, great tune, but the closing track of Hissing Fauna is still some best-of-the-decade (in indie) shit.

Standing at Swedish festival discussing "Story of the Eye"

hahaha, I always thought this was "discussing 'Story of the Year'" (the band) with him impersonating some ridiculous Swedish accent.

haahhaahaa

Whatever, I'm going to continue believing that, in case I ever hear this song again.

It's an incredible song musically, but it's also got some of the most spectacular lyrics of the 00's. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they're my favourite (in want of a better choice). Certainly, for me, it is the definitive break-up song of our age.

I don't start many polls. These lyrics are special. Momentous, even.

Was tempted to throw in 'And I never ever wanted to write this song/I always thought things would change somehow/And we would start getting along/But it's hopeless/Hopeless' as a bonus option but that'd probably distract too many voters from TPIAGA

And no, "THE POLL IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL" would NOT have been acceptable

^^

this is easy for me, but i love this entire song, lyrically. it's "we want our film to be beautiful, not realistic"

country matters, what did you think of Skeletal Lamping?

At first I loved it. Then I kinda disliked it. Now I love it again. :D

I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met/Who could appreciate Georges Bataille
Standing at Swedish festival discussing "Story of the Eye"

I would just like to formally apologize for ever having been associated with this genre in any way

All the weak points are on the first half, which threw me briefly, and it's hard to commend individual tracks for their excellence ahead of their place within the rollicking narrative (apart from the incredible Triphallus, To Punctuate! which begins a 7-track sequence of uninterrupted brilliance)...you kinda have to hear the album to really enjoy the songs at their fullest. Wicked Wisdom, Gallery Piece and St Exquisite's Confessions and to a lesser extent For Our Elegant Caste and Women's Studies Victims are massive momentum-killers in my book, and without them the album would have been even more flat-out wondrous

booming xp

dude chill i'll praise your lyrics too some day

there will be no further lyrics from me, don't wanna be part of the problem, it's strictly steve roach soundscape stuff from now on

SCARED STRAIGHT

voted Let's tear our fucking bodies apart

these lyrix are super emotion-charged.

Leif.

j0hn there's plenty of self-awareness in those lyrics, writing them out makes them look dumb, like 95% of lyrics

thread made me lol twice in quick succession just then

Leif.

This song is so batshit that it goes way past tweeness into something bizarre and appropriate.

Truly, it is a gigantic self-aware clusterfuck of the soul, written as a musical absurdity but also as a genuinely sincere statement of real lost love. It doesn't across as pomo toss precisely because it buys *completely* and without deviation into a 'dark descent into own psyche' conceit, all the while lamenting through overabundance of language the lack of language that might be appropriate in this situation, the impossibility of pursuing any sort of pat conclusion (see also: "No Conclusion") in song. Even as it casts around desperately, it remains in control. Such is the tension of TPIAGA. Some pretty neat lines in there too.

Went thru a brief phase in 07 of playing this song over and over and over when I'd gone quite funny in the head w/bit of a breakdown.

My obv emo choice would be "But it's like we weren't made for this world/Though I wouldn't really want to meet someone who was"

But I'm also fond of "we're always touching by underground wires" for various reasons of m'own.

think my favorite song on this album is the last one though

"We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic"

I dunno, compared to this song (first I heard of theirs) the rest of the album was a bit of a disappointment, if only because it wasnt anywhere near as absurdly over the top as this. I do like "Gronlandic Edit" though. "Physics makes us all its bitches" is a bravely wanky line to chuck in there.

that's a great line, but i always skip that song. that falsetto chorus got hella annoying to me after a while.

it's got a nice bassline tho

this, "suffer for fashion" "heimdalsgate" "a sentence of sorts" and "we were born mutants" are my favorites, but i like 'em all

i always skip that song. that falsetto chorus got hella annoying to me after a while.

This.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u3rxdrzQFuw/R6M7G0xc_UI/AAAAAAAAEMo/AiaOA7KFX9E/s320/animal+pasta.jpg

THE PASTA IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL

The pasta is a grotesque animal/and when combined with cheese/with marinara tart and garlicky

should I continue?

somehow taking pride in not knowing what this song or who it is by

suck it up and google it like me

Google is a grotesque animal.

The water boils/it softens starchy elephants and pigs/past the point of being al dente

Man, this record is the best. Does anyone else find the follow-up to be a total slog to get through?

I would blame the mushy mess on distraction/add cheese disheartenedly, grate and sigh

I garnished it with a wheel of camembert/I say I'm pleased she ate my cottage pie

is what I had

Man, this record is the best. Does anyone else find the follow-up to be a total slog to get through?

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, August 4, 2009 10:36 PM (5 minutes ago)

it's a record for stans only, is what i've determined

Adding all the swedes and mescalyne/Then basting sorrel-flavoured rye

sullenly stirring sauce and then soul-deadened break down and cry

suck it up and google it like me

No results found for "the pastry is a grotesque animal"

Adding all the swedes and mescalyne/Then basting sorrel-flavoured rye

Dammit Louis didn't you learn from the choco fish disaster ;P

Although the radishes do need some rum, Mikado brew/Tuscan ilex grain, a sideboard where the wok is strewn

No results found for "the puss is a grotesque animal".

this promises to be a gigantic self-aware clusterfuck of the kitchen

I'm baking dough, I'm baking dough, upon a rough stone/The yeast was smothered with sticking plaster

go to bed

Perfumed in shake-down, an emulsion of spirits/Despatch it to Table One

Jesus Christ.

Grilled cod with chiffon, burnt then hot

(bed yes, but all of this is sadly tbc)

Man, this record is the best. Does anyone else find the follow-up to be a total slog to get through?

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, August 4, 2009 9:36 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yep. Really loved Hissing Fauna, but man is Skeletal Lamping a fucking disaster. It's sort of like the Fiery Furnaces's Blueberry Boat, with the crucial difference that the little song fragments add up to nothing. Such a disappointing followup to a great record.

Thermos-hid ice-cream finally melts, finally melts/Conchiglie terrible

(ok really bed this time)

(and Skeletal Lamping is great, like I said, if you ignore that the first half is patchy at best)

dude come on, just the first FIVE include "nonpareil of favor," "wicked wisdom" and "an eluardian instance"

wicked wisdom is bad. and it actually sounds like a bad fiery furnaces rip-off in the second half. the other two songs you mention are fantastic. bed bed bed before I come up with another line

ooooooh just to look at her is god
cantcha see it, baby

When the songbits in SL are good though, they're REALLY good.

Skeletal Lamping is a good album it just doesn't have a giant centrepiece like 'The Past Is A Grotesque Cannibal'.

And I'm having: 'The mousey girl screams "Violence! Violence!" She gets hysterical.'

so far:
The pasta is a grotesque animal/and when combined with cheese/with marinara tart and garlicky
The water boils/it softens starchy elephants and pigs/past the point of being al dente
I would blame the mushy mess on distraction/add cheese disheartenedly, grate and sigh

a wheel of camembert, and then a pound of chocolate goo, I want to impress, her out of her dress I'll try to
Oh what the fuck, Oh what the fuck, is this, what is this/But perhaps she'll like it, I think I'll spike it
Chardonnay - white whine - I read girls like white whine/this could be disastrous
Sauce tastes like ketchup, what a flop
Vomiting girlfriend, "Horrible! Horrible!"/ Failure unparalleled
so I clean the floor/and then she pukes some more
It's disgusting but it's intimate/I hold her hair as she's sick
And we're posed as if romance could happen here
And it might if we were in a film/but the acrid stench of sick reminds me that we're not
What the fuck was I thinking?

Haaaaa.

I love Kevin Barnes lyrics, so much so that I read them on the internet. But I've never been able to enjoy a single Of Montreal song, except the first three minutes of this one.

I voted for "I need you here and not here too."

Weird, I found a dude (dubbed 'Burywood') who'd uploaded a video of himself covering this song armed only with an electric guitar and several technical gizmos...his only other uploaded video is a cover of you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHcv1q-ayY&feature=channel

:D

Sarahel, that is actually completely awesome and brilliant and I wish I'd written it myself

I'm going to be contrarian and say that this song is NOT, i repeat NOT the best song on the album. And the first stretch is the best bit (how can one not enjoy a bit of Gronlandic Edit?)

I voted for "I need you here and not here too."

somebody explain to me what this is supposed to mean

how can he explain

voted for "We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic"

lol i always think that if not for the actual music, i would totally hate this band. but as it were, i fucking love them.

By far my favorite song on this album (and on some days my favorite Of Montreal song period). Kind of a toss up for me between "let's tear our fucking bodies apart" and "old selves/speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells"; the former is delivered so well, but the latter is just such a great image.

"i need you here and not here too" is about as obscure as the verses to 'you really got a hold on me' ffs

I think it's a right-on summation of a certain long-term relationship feeling.

And no hatred for this band, either... consistently awesome lyrics + great outfits more than make up for the fact that I can't get through a song of theirs.

^that's too bad cause for real, i would totally love to hear you cover one of their songs.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

crap - there's still more than half of the song to go ... not sure if I'll finish before the poll ends.

If you do, I'll sing it!

I might even help you write some if it's going slowly.

basically it's at plot point 1, I/we just need to decide what happens next.

more culinary disasters begin to emerge from the protagonist's murky past(a)

he slowly realises that all that time spent in a kitchen was only serving to destroy both him and the woman he served to

good idea!

it ends "and none of my soufflés are edible/ None of my soufflés are edible/ None of my soufflés are edible now"

edible and sockpuppet are rhythmically interchangeable.

You've lived so brightly/You've altered everything
I find myself searching for old selves/While speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells
I've played the unraveler, the parhelion/But even apocalypse is fleeting/There's no death, no ugly world
Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you
We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic

This slays.

I was at work the other day and I thought of "marinara tart and garlicky" and I laughed

I voted for "I need you here and not here too."

somebody explain to me what this is supposed to mean

It's like, he wants her, but he also wants the longing he'd get from her absence.

Or alternatively, he both loves and loathes what she does to him (cf "I can't live/with or without you").

Seems pretty clear to me, I donno.

wonder how many ppl have voted in this poll

briefly tempted to start a poll asking how many people people think voted in this poll

http://nashville.ismyhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/i-voted.gif

ok I was hasty to call these my lyrics of the decade. Went with the final line.

I would just like to formally apologize for ever having been associated with this genre in any way

― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Tuesday, August 4, 2009 9:00 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

<3

hey dorks take the jaded self-loathing to iltmi, thanks

that's not gonna make me feel any less sorry for him when his cd binders get stolen.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

briefly tempted to start a poll for how many more than thomp's prediction 45 was

please go ahead

Performance breakdown and I don't want to hear it/I'm just not available

was 'performance breakdown' meant to mean the big wibbly synthesizer solo? surprised no one voted for that

THE PASTA IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL

Major lolz.