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I have a working theory that any song over five minutes is almost always really fucking good. Not a single melodic second is wasted in this one. No words are spoken, yet so much is said.
Mar 8, 2025
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Nobody knows how to end an album on a particularly wistful note like my pal Britt Daniel. ‘Vittorio E’ is like the first of many such closers. 💙
Apr 1, 2024
A song from my pal Britt Daniel about being logical in a relationship, but nothing is really logical. Trying to do something to be at least conventional or rational, but failing in that effort. Emotion and heart ❤️ always wins out.
“No more riding the brakes.”
TUFF. A musical beast. It’s like twice as long live and often an encore or last song of the regular set.
Aug 15, 2024
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."
2d ago
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got me giddy as hell packing my bags and picking up my sweet little treats
we’re gonna spend the night exchanging hot goss and our silly little secrets
i’m over here kicking and swinging my little feet in anticipation
this really this is a love letter to my girls. i love you and i’ll see you sooonnnnnn
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Dec 14, 2024
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god sometimes, in the moment, it sucks. but 99.99% of the time i feel so much better after the fact. inspired by me having to recently take my own advice i give to my students about how to get more comfortable being uncomfortable.
Dec 18, 2024