Except for the fact no emo band would ever have the balls to write lines like:
Soft silly music is meaningful magical The movements were beautiful All in your ovaries All of them milking with green fleshy flowers While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
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For me, the distinction between NMH and emo music makes a nice analaogy for the distinction between "emotion" and "feeling."
Except for the fact no emo band would ever have the balls to write lines like:
ReplyDeleteSoft silly music is meaningful magical
The movements were beautiful
All in your ovaries
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
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For me, the distinction between NMH and emo music makes a nice analaogy for the distinction between "emotion" and "feeling."
Mike,
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right. Amended above.
Now if anyone tries to start talking about Washington D.C. and how actually derives from hardcore, just hit them with a flügelhorn.
ReplyDelete+ strings (and a repressed memory of Echo and the Bunnymen) = Arcade Fire.
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