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[amethysting.livejournal.com]

Soft Shock (Acoustic Version)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz (Deluxe Edition)
2009

This wasn't the song I was going to post.

And I feel a bit silly posting it because surely you not only have it, but you've probably listened to it dozens of times.

But.

I came home, washed dishes, sorted laundry and could feel the heaviness in the air.  The wind started to make the screens on my windows hyperventilate.  I pressed myself up close to the screen, breathing, watching hundreds of propellers dizzily spin off of the huge trees outside my living room window.  And I thought, how pretty.  An image I wanted to save in my mind by blinking a few times rapidly--taking a little mental picture.

Suddenly, the song I had picked seemed all wrong.  Too rushed and loud and harsh.  Too literal.  "Soft Shock" is one of the songs I put on the mix CD I made this week and it lilted out of my stereo speakers today just when the world started to grumble like a hungry stomach and flashes of lightening made the sky look like the inside of a lit lampshade.  That delicate opening and Karen O's trembling voice made me feel like I was safe inside my apartment, behind my pock-marked window screen.  It felt like it was something that was mine alone.  

I named the mix CD I made, "how to be uncertain" and included this song because: 1) I've been listening to it a lot (it featured on a recent episode of Bones, and it was just one of those perfect plot + music moments.  I knew the song, but it somehow seemed new or different...or that this time, upon hearing it, I felt a twinge of...something I couldn't quite put my finger on); 2) The line "It's a sharp shock to your soft side"...I love it...It hurts...I get this image of a jolt of electricity pressed into my skin at a moment when I wasn't expecting it.  This song has that effect, no matter how many times I listen to it.

Comments

[cabaretlights.livejournal.com]

I'm a little drunk right now and feeling pretty bold but:
I have been feeling that "oh, if she's heard it it's not worth posting" feeling


and I hate it
because what I love most about our comm
is the post itself.


so more than anything right now,
i appreciate that you posted something that MATTERS,
because that is what music should be,
and that is what is important about it.


yeah i've heard this song.
yeah i like it already.
who the fuck cares; now it's got a completely new context AND I LOVE THAT, that gives me something NEW.



so.
THANK YOU.
♥

p.s.
this post is beautiful


and more comment later.