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May 17, 2007
Pixies bracket: Let Down (3) v Go To Sleep (14)
"Let Down"
OK Computer
(3)
According to today's Wikipedia entry, "Let Down" is "about the alienation and emptiness of life in modern society." You don't say! This track combines the rarefied air of being extremely melodic and deceptively complex. Also, it contains one of the laziest metaphors in the Radiohead canon: "Crushed like a bug in the ground". Seriously, guys, that's fourth-grade material.
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"Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)"
Hail to the Thief
(14)
There's a very Johnny Cash-esque guitar strum introducing this song, but, in theme, it is more Carly Simon. Thom Yorke claims that the album's title isn't a direct stab at W, but I don't see how a musician could make a far-reaching political statement in today's world that isn't about the current US president. "We don't want the loonies taking over"? A bit too late for that, I'm afraid.
Posted by Randall Monty at May 17, 2007 11:32 AM
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