Comments on: Red – Guillemots http://dontsmokeinbed.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/red-guillemots/ Music etc Fri, 01 May 2009 04:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Glen http://dontsmokeinbed.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/red-guillemots/#comment-8 Glen Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:47:53 +0000 http://dontsmokeinbed.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-8 Hey Stephen, I was glad to have stumbled upon this little treasure of a blog via Facebook! Great read (of course), and I do agree with your assessment of the Guillemots here. I was a huge fan of "Through the Windowpane" and it remains possibly my favourite "Music Learned of from a fellow Traveller". However, this song just doesn't do it for me. It fails to reach the cathartic highs that songs like "Trains to Brazil" or "Made Up Lovesong #43" are able to do. I also think that you have some valid points of the lyrics, perhaps I was spoiled since the first song of theirs that I really dug my teeth into was "Made up Lovesong #43", which really stands as the song with the best lyrics of their bunch. It sucks that they aren't able to achieve the same poetic brilliance as "I love you through sparks and shinning dragons, I do". Ahh well, there's always the next album, right? Hey Stephen, I was glad to have stumbled upon this little treasure of a blog via Facebook!

Great read (of course), and I do agree with your assessment of the Guillemots here. I was a huge fan of “Through the Windowpane” and it remains possibly my favourite “Music Learned of from a fellow Traveller”. However, this song just doesn’t do it for me. It fails to reach the cathartic highs that songs like “Trains to Brazil” or “Made Up Lovesong #43″ are able to do.

I also think that you have some valid points of the lyrics, perhaps I was spoiled since the first song of theirs that I really dug my teeth into was “Made up Lovesong #43″, which really stands as the song with the best lyrics of their bunch. It sucks that they aren’t able to achieve the same poetic brilliance as “I love you through sparks and shinning dragons, I do”. Ahh well, there’s always the next album, right?

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