“After the Gold Rush” is the third album by Neil Young. I listened to it last year after beginning my quest to hear the best ever albums to have been released. Although he does have a voice that did take me a few minutes to get around, I realised that it perfectly complimented all of the songs anyway. So it ended up being no big deal.
“Cripple Creek Ferry” is the little ditty that closes off the album. Some may think it’s a bit short, maybe a waste of time but I really like it. It is only a minute and a bit long, but the melody’s really sweet and you will be singing along to it after a few repeats.
For more insight, click on these three words. I am very sure that it will give you better lyrical analysis than I ever could.
Here is all you need to know. “Criminal” is the last song on “The Marshall Mathers LP“, Eminem’s third album. Or second if you’re a person who negates the existence of “Infinite“. “The Marshall Mathers LP” is arguably Eminem’s best album. Eminem is regarded to be one of the best rappers of all time. Have you pressed play on the video above yet?
It is a great closer to the album. It basically sums up all of the messages conveyed in the prior seventeen songs, and is spat out to you in a humorous and clever fashion. Eminem was the centre of controversy after the release of “The Slim Shady LP”. Many women, homosexuals, parents, the government….. They were all very offended by what this man said. But does he care? No. Because he doesn’t mean it. It is all very funny to him.
Really though, I like Eminem but not as much as I might have sounded two paragraphs above. When his lyrics and beats are on point, he is siiiiick. “Criminal” is another of the numerous instances when he is, indeed, sick.
I am going to say something that will irk a lot of Pavement fans. But “Terror Twilight” is my favourite Pavement album. I said it, what.
The record gets a lot of scepticism by the majority of Pavement fans for many reasons. Reasons that I would try to list here, but would end up typing them very vaguely so you probably won’t understand. Basically this is the band’s last album, made at a time when relationships within the band were deteriorating. I think a lot of people sense that from the album’s sound. Stephen Malkmus’ vocals sound quite lacklustre and lack conviction, there wasn’t an “Unfair” or a “Two States” type song on there. In fact the writer of the latter, Scott Kannberg the guitarist and other songwriter in the band, didn’t get one song on this album. He had at least one song on the previous four albums. Thing’s weren’t looking good. Would Pavement split up? Their split later in 1999 answered that question.
Despite all that, I simply adore this album. It has such an airy, dream-like atmosphere about it. No doubt that is due to the production of one Nigel Godrich, who you may or may not know as the producer of most of Radiohead’s albums. Nothing sounds rough; all the songs are very soothing and pleasing to the ear. Yes Malkmus wrote all the songs, the songs sound too polished, Malkmus sounds bored but you know…. GET OUT OF HERE. I DON’T CARE. “Terror Twilight” forever.
That’s my album review. Now for the song.
So, “Cream of Gold” is the fourth song on “Terror Twilight”. It did take a while for me to eventually like this song enough to put it on my iPod. I didn’t just put it on there because “You Are the Light” segues into it when you listen to the album. I did grow to appreciate the song for its coolness.
I have no clue what the song is about. The lyrics are very abstract. Even the song title is just a longer way of saying “Beige”, which I only figured out a few weeks ago. I think it’s about some sort of bad relationship of a couple, and the narrator knew from the start but he still suffers through it.
Musically, it’s very gloomy. It rocks, don’t get me wrong. This isn’t some emo, goth type song or whatever. The songs starts to play when you’re outside, it’s really dark and you beginning to worry about your own safety. That happened to me some time ago when I was walking back to my house….. But the track just suits that type of atmosphere. It has quite a threatening tone to it.
The guitar tuning is not the ‘standard’, which Pavement were known to do for many songs from their albums. After two verses, two choruses and a few repeats of the last line of the chorus, Malkmus busts out a solo and repeats a phrase about six times before the track falls apart with some feedback. Not in a bad way to end. Good stuff.
Quoted from songfacts: “Lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley wrote this about one of his old girlfriends.” From the title, you can already tell that this is not a track about the good times the couple had in that relationship.
No, it seems that “Bunkface” was asking too much of Deryck. Always going on about being together forever even when they’re only in their late teens, and generally talking about things that, although he appears to care, freak him out when they come into conversation. He tries to put on a smile, but wants out.So this song are basically all the thoughts going through his head while that’s going on.
Can’t say much about it, but I have it on the iPod so I must like it.
Um…. Okay, I know this looks bad…. let me explain.
“Cram It Up Your Ass……. really? What the fuck.” That may be one of the thoughts that may have come to mind when you first saw the title. If you have come to this from my Twitter page, you may be even more confused and surprised. I couldn’t put a song title like that on my feed; people wouldn’t even want to click on the link otherwise.
Enough about that. “Cram It Up Your Ass” is the closer to Guttermouth’s first major release “Covered with Ants” and is one of the funniest songs I have ever listened to. And one of the creepiest.
The only reason I know of this song is because all I wanted to do, when I was ten and playing Tony Hawk on the PS2, was find and listen to “I’m Destroying the World” on the computer for minutes on end. However I could never do that; I always had to listen to thirty second samples instead on random music sites. Whenever it said ‘download’, the link would take me to a place where I had to pay… I’m not about that life.
“Cram It Up Your Ass” is on the same album as “Destroying the World”, and the title looked interesting so I decided to hear it’s sample. Nothing much happened, as you can tell. Just the lead singer singing the title over a bass that was playing the vocal melody. No big deal.
That was until, years later, I found out that it turns into a proper headbanger where all the guitars play the vocal melody in unison with frenetic drums rolling around all over the place. The dynamics are a very key part of this song. The last lines “Do you still like me?” are sung when the instruments come to a sudden stop, leaving the singer all alone. That part freaks me out a bit.
It doesn’t end there. After a few seconds of silence, a bloody grand piano comes in and plays the vocal melody over and over again for five minutes or so! I don’t know. I cut that bit out though, that part is unnecessary.
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