I'm taking this opportunity to use this blog again, since I haven't been very good about keeping it up. SInce the 30 Day Song Challenge includes both positive and negative reactions to music, I figured this would work. Plus it gives me more space to expand on my decision and explain myself.
Also, I don't like spamming all 300 of my friends with my shitty taste in music.
So, here is my favorite song:
"The Past and Pending" by The Shins.
"Oh, Inverted World" by The Shins is a great debut album. I bought it because "New Slang" and "Caring Is Creepy" were featured in "Garden State" and I loved the sound of the band. It was a lot like a modern take on The Beach Boys, a band that my parents raised me on. Every song on the album seemed to be crafted in great detail and I began to make up stories in my head about how the recording process must have gone, how meticulous the producer must have been to get such an amazing sound.
"The Past and Pending" closes out the album and after listening to it once, I knew it was my favorite song. That may sound weird (and possibly a bit cheap), but something about the way the song came together gave me the best feeling in the world. The horns that occasionally pop up remind me somehow of animated movies that I used to watch in my second grade class, like The BFG or Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. It's a nostalgia trip of the best kind and TPAP hits all the right cues.
I still don't understand entirely what the lyrics mean, but I've always seen the song as a finale. Well, maybe not a finale so much as an ending, with more to come. There are some things in the past, but there is something else coming up. There's nothing definite about any ending here.
It may seem bland to a lot of people, but I find it charming.
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