So Death Cab For Cutie covered Bjork, right? Which I'm sure is awesome. That said, I never bothered listening to the cover, until deciding that maybe it would have a place on the dreamy mixtape. I mean, you mix Bjork's bizarreness/surrealism with Death Cab's gentleness/quasi-tranquility and you should get the perfect dreamscape, right? No. This song is just euurgh.
Don't get me wrong, I dig the Death Cab. I usually have no beef with them whatsoever. And "All is Full of Love" as presented by DCFC is, I'm sure, very lovely. I just can't get past the fact that it sounds...well, like Death Cab.
Seriously! It's really disconcerting! I know there's the whole thing about "making it your own", but in my mind there is a difference between "Death Cab do Bjork" and "Death Cab do Death Cab", or there should be.
This displeases me greatly. I was on a lyric site earlier, where someone was attempting to explain what they thought the song meant. Clearly worried about their explanation being convoluted, they said "The way DCFC say it is much better, that's why they're the songwriters."
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I wept.
(not really.)
THANK YOU. FINALLY.
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i didn't think it was horrible... maybe that's just because i heard it before i heard the original (which i do admit is much better) or because i <3 Death Cab.
ReplyDeleteno it's not horrible, it probably is quite good but there's such a huge wtf factor for me that it just...it's not right! it's not right! it's just...it sounds exactly the same as all death cab, but anything involving bjork even a little should be much more mental than regular death cab. so it should have been, i dunno, death cab for kooky.
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that said i have been listening to soooo much death cab. i am turning into a bona fide emoo kid @_@