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faces, "Glad and Sorry"

I finally figured out how to play this on guitar instead of piano as it's constructed here (it's in a different tuning -- drop C, CGCFAD which is also what Nirvana's "On a Plain" is in) I think it's Faces' greatest song, from among many candidates -- Rod Stewart basically isn't on it, he's barely on this album TBH -- it was written and sung by Ronnie Lane. You might read this if you want a deep dive/interpretation: https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/3776097665/faces-glad-and-sorry-when-they-reconvened-to “Can you show me a dream/Can you show me one that’s better than mine/Can you stand it in the cold light of day/Neither can I.” This is the bit that really gets me, everytime. "Even when we try our best to share each other’s dreams, bare our souls, give up our inmost thoughts, even when we intend to stand shoulder to shoulder and face the world, building something new together—there’s always a point at which it falls apart, and despair creeps in, and it’s all gone past recovery... It’s that cold, hard recognition as the morning dawns and all my stupid fantasies of achievement, of desire, of love, scurry away into the shadows. Another one gone, how many more left to live?" Songwriting is magical and this one has "it."

@coreydubrowa

2d ago

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Game Of Pricks: 1:03-1:10

The first two lines of the chorus: 'You can never be strong, You can only be free' Sums up everything great about Robert Pollard's songwriting. Drama, hope and disappointment.

@lowartdecay

Mar 7, 2025

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3 summers / jeff rosenstock

i didn’t quite appreciate this song as much as i do now until seeing it performed as the closer to his live show… such a great encapsulation of the feeling of years of life under very late capitalism weighing on you how hard can you go, and for how long can you sustain it? when the force that fights back doesn’t ever relax it’s so relentless, oh how long can you defend against a cheat code? at a furious pace, with a smile on your face

@sloane_shark

May 5, 2024

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This Old Dog

On many camping trips where ive opted to sleep under the starts, no tent, ive listened to the title track of this This Old Dog by Mac Demarco and tracked shooting stars and planes to the pedal steel (?) in the chorus

@DomDizzler

Feb 7, 2025