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February 26, 2006
Matriarch musical express, Vol #2: Postal Service 'Give Up'
Oh mocktastic Web 2.0, a milieu where your father is IM’ing you at work and your mother is reviewing Ben Gibbard side projects for your web-based publication. Mother, while she picked up her prolificacy (next review to come tomorrow) and has become an autodidact reviewer, she is an editor’s nightmare for failing to conform to the agreed upon-structure of reviews. But since this is the Internet, we can let it slide and let Mother’s review be posted, unfiltered.
Today, she reviews The Postal Service’s Give Up, which soared to the advertised level, placing 17th in the 2003 Pazz and Jop Poll and 29th in Pitchfork Media’s Top Albums of 2003.
With out further ado, super reviewer Sue O’Brien
The Postal Service CD is not in the real world – all the songs seem to be either in his head (dreams) like [he is] sleeping in. He could accomplish a lot in his dreams, he just didn't apply it when he was awake. He liked being in his dreams, everything always looked better from afar, but not actually in real life. I don't think he could handle real life so he made believe everything was perfect.
The first couple of songs seemed to move slowly in their music and then [the album] got a lift with Clark Gable, he was trying to make out that he still had his girlfriend and everything was great and rosy, then he went back to morose with This Place is a Prison.
Nothing Better was a favorite.
He still wanted another chance with his girlfriend and she wanted to show him graphs and charts showing him how many times he wanted another chance. I loved it. Men seem to feel that if they say they are sorry, the woman will always forgive, there comes a time when that just doesn't cut it anymore [ed. note: did I open Pandora’s box?]
Natural Anthem
The beginning sounded like his brain going in all directions; he didn't know where to turn. Everything was breaking down; maybe he was going to actually try to stay in the real world and make decisions and take responsibility and actually face everything, bad and good without slipping off to dream world again.
Such Great Heights
He missed her because she was away. Once she came back home, he probably wouldn't remember that he missed her.
Sue O’Brien’s, channeling Oprah, “I think Postal Service needs to get a reality check and come back to the real world. It wasn't the most uplifting CD.”
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Posted by Keith O'Brien at February 26, 2006 09:27 AM
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