Intelligent Music
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The Ghost of FFS — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 07:37 AM)
What a wonderfully weird, but interesting piece of music. Thanks, Dazed. I'd need a few more listens to that to really know what they're trying to say.
I'm hearing a critique of the shallowness of modernity, but I wonder if there's something else there too, snarling under the surface.
Love the melody, love the easy style and the orchestral sounds that occasionally give off a Glen Miller, big band vibe, and I love the intentionally cheesy video.
R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
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The Ghost of FFS — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 07:48 AM)
I know of them, but can't say they've ever grabbed my attention.
There's so much good music out there. It's impossible to discover it all.
Link something you like.
R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
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The Ghost of FFS — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 08:10 AM)
My favorite is the second one, but what are they trying to tell me? I'm not really getting the message.
If it's just a song about cave paintings then I'll be disappointed.
R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
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CrystalRaindrops — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 08:22 AM)
My interpretation is that he found the caves as a kid and nobody else knew about them. He was overwhelmed by the drawings, found meaning and comfort in them, and even felt like they were his friends. But after other people discovered them and they were on display for the world to see, with people all over the world looking at them, taking pictures, etc., they were just seen as historical artifacts; so when he saw them like that as an adult, the feelings were gone that he had about them when he was a kid.
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The Ghost of FFS — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 08:31 AM)
I didn't listen until the end, so now I feel ignorant!
So, it's an ode to that irrational sense of loss we feel when somebody else enjoys something we thought only we appreciated. It's about that feeling we get when our own private world is "invaded".
We've found a wondrous beauty spot, but the next time we go there, it's full of tourists and a hot dog cart is feeding everyone.
It's the feeling I get when other guys get excited about my woman's kooky humor, or when I've enjoyed a movie at a very deep level, only to discover many other people have too.
If we're honest, we like to think that everything that's precious to us is only precious to us, and we feel cheated when we have to share it.
R. I. P. FFS (1975-2021)
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CrystalRaindrops — 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 08:37 AM)
There's a story in those songs, so it's better to listen from the beginning.
Yes, I think your descriptions fit the message in the lyrics.
I just looked it up and found this, from a chat with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker from Steely Dan:
What is the meaning behind "the caves of Altamira?"
Donald: It's a pretty straightforward story about a guy who visits the caves of Altamira, which have famous drawings by prehistoric men or women as the case may be, and he registers his astonishment.
Walter: It's a story about the loss of innocence.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 
— 4 years ago(April 26, 2021 07:26 AM)