The Magnetic Fields - You must be out of your mind

First song from The Magnetic Fields new album ("Realism")

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[StevenLoos]

"You can't go around saying stuff, just because it's pretty, and I no longer drink enough to think you're witty."

[gdub999tube]

@saxonclay If this is trash, then I'm The Happy Garbage Man.

[carlamightyjane]

Very similar parts of melody of their own song 'book of love'.....

[ImagineMarvelous]

THIS BAND. fucking amazing

[TheSuperDenise]

to tragoudi mou

[wsidejack]

Is rigormortis your brother by any chance? :-)

[jimmymortis]

@wsidejack @wsidejack Well yeah, but 40 is such a low number. The subset of music that is not within the top 40 is much greater than that which is. I think the suggestion that it is wonderful nevertheless is not self-evident from this, or particularly extraordinary and I find your overall point just short of platitude.

[wsidejack]

@jimmymortis Ahhhh, where did I say "it fits exactly what music is"? I said you know "exactly what the Magnetic Fields are saying," meaning the lyrics are not convoluted, unlike with some bands (even bands I like a lot).

The only generalization I made was the reference to current definitions of music. Of course that is sarcastic because there is no one definition. I was saying it's a bit out of the mainstream of rock (the Top 40 stuff) right now.

Btw, I'm from Chicago, it's near earth.

[jimmymortis]

@wsidejack Um, it fits exactly what music is? Where do you come from, planet mars? Furthermore, lyrics do not have to be cohesive to be poetry. Look at the pixies for instance. You are simply trading one exclusion for another. Just celebrate the song, that will be fine.

[CopelandMeister]

I listen to this on YouTube because its play-count on iTunes is getting embarrassing.

[wsidejack]

@robman8855 Hard to say. It may not fit into the current (soup de jour) definitions of what is music. It is wonderful nonetheless.

A beautiful piece of poetry when most rock bands can not write a cohesive set of lyrics; many of them have chants or disconnected sentences that are hard to disentangle.

We know exactly what the Magnetic Fields are saying. Some great "wordsmithing" in the writing of this song. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bobajar1]

Like an apendectomy.