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N.B. There are special little rewards in heaven for those of you who can untangle my clever little allusions. ^^ (And, sometimes I write paragraphs out of order, if you can pull something out of that.... Or, shove something into it, I guess.)
{If you want really specific song-by-song blow-by-blow, skip to the end.}
There are a lot of different kinds of music, but I'm starting to think that this is the best one. Not "pop" exactly-- I can tell that this is pop, but I can't explain why it's not rock-- but, love. Love. Love music.
{And I'm still not sure about some things sometimes-- how do you decide how good something is. Is "Fifth Dimension" better than "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Mr. Tambourine Man"? Yes..... no.... Ah.... Is "Walls and Bridges" better than "Mind Games"? What about "Cloud Nine"? (Incidentally, "Cloud Nine" is a great soft rock piece. Lennon's stuff usually is, too.)
But I do know that this is a superb piece of art, and I'm more sure of that, than that "Led Zeppelin III" is better than "Led Zeppelin" & "Led Zeppelin II". (Incidentally, Led Zeppelin is like soft metal or something. "Immigrant Song", but, most of their stuff is more like "Since I've Been Loving You", which I must allow is practically perfect.).... Although "Immigrant Song" does remind me, sure, of "Primordial" or one of the Viking bands-- metal because it's hard, and harder than rock, which is like, rocking back and forth to dance, or else.... a garden rock, kinda hard and rock-y, but also.... garden-y? ANYWAY.)}
And, also, if they are a tiny bit like the Liverpool band-- okay, I just gave you half of the clever allusion, see it now?-- because they are as popular as the Beatles now, seems like, and it's good that *somebody* is, if you know what I mean.... and, it's like, every song is a "Paul" song, it's not even like George and Cloud Nine and everything, it's *pure* romance, until it hurts, almost, the feelings are *there*..... and, "Little Things" for example, it's just *so*..... Good. Not bad, but, rather, good.
{Remember that line from the White Album, ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps", I think), "I look at the world and I notice that it's turning".... and how that's the little bit of good, right..... well, that would be 1D, right....}
And they're *just* like the Beach Boys, you know. They just kinda are. It's there. It's like that.....
Actually, the only big difference, I think, is that One Direction has this louder sound, and the Beach Boys are kinda laid back, kinda chill. It's very similar, though. There's just something about it....
Like, "Sounds of Summer", a (well done) Beach Boys compilation album I have, which I played in the morning today, before I went to school, and then, after school and when my mom was out of the house, I popped in "Take Me Home". There's something similar about it, though. (Maybe they're not as much like the Beach Boys as the Monkees, but, it's still pretty close, I find.)
Anyway. Time to add some song-specific stuff, so that this doesn't get deleted for relevancy or something.
"Live While We're Young" is a great single; it's exactly what a single and a lead track should be. Incidentally, maybe, it's what makes it almost difficult, at times. It's so *hard* to be, "22", if you will. It's worth it, though. The song, I mean.
"Kiss You" is a sorta smooth transition from "Live While We're Young"; you could almost mis-label the one as the other. Maybe. Anyway, this is the one where the actual phrase "take me home" crops up. It's an interesting phrase, in itself. Not least because it has at least two sides. What do you mean, quote, Take me home, close-quote. Take you home.... to kiss you? Or, take me home, I'm done with this now.
"Little Things". Is. Something. ("Something", lol.) (And they are like the Liverpool guys re-incarnated as Beach Boys, I think sometimes....) I mean, as far as virtuous love goes, really, really virtuous love goes, I can only compare it to "Anna (Go To Him)"-- that's all that comes to mind. Really. And it's funny, because it's a very modern song. Five years ago, even, we would not have had it like this. "Anna" is a very oldies kind of song, and "Little Things" is a very modern song, but they're both.... I don't know. Virtuous. It's like the working-class ethic in "Since I've Been Loving You"-- how can you escape it, something so obvious? It's just there. Also kinda interesting, something in this, 'Summer Love', maybe, has that word/phrase "(my girl-love is) mine"-- "you were mine"-- which I thought was banned or something, but I'm glad, now, if it isn't, because you can't ban stuff like that, 'cause it ain't right.
"C'mon, C'mon"-- the implied story-line of "the one I came with, she had to go" being the one who didn't like the "little things" slipping out of his mouth-- it's actually a very healthy sort of song, and even *more* comforting, really, than the phrase, at least, "born this way": "but if I do, if I do, (let the little things out on the table, so to speak), it's you, it's you, that they add up to"....... It's even more, really, than just the girls and the very modern stuff-- it just helps. It's me, it's me, that they add up to. Okay, cool. Even when I'm a little freaky-- those little things, it's me, it's me, *that they add up to*. But anyway yeah, "C'mon, C'mon" is a little hilarious with the implied story-line.
"Last First Kiss"-- the use of the "last" and "first" and such in this song is clever. Also, it's amazing to me as a young person, (male youngling, specifically), how much young people stress about.... everything? The entire rest of our lives, for example? (You're right, I should decide now that....) Middle-aged people call us babies-- 22, you're a baby, 24, (me), even.... and then, there are these people, 20, *17*.... 15, wow, numbers go that little.... and, even *I* know that that's young, but, here we are, worrying about our grand-kids when we're unmarried (undivorced) single..... "Will you still feed me, will you still need me, when I'm sixty-four", right. We are insane.
"Heart Attack"-- this could happen to you. I don't know. What am I supposed to write about every single....
"Rock Me"-- rock it, rock on-- just rocking, you know. I don't know. I see how they're obviously pop, (I read somewhere that McCartney started it, with "McCartney", but, I have no idea myself), but, they could be rock, you know. I mean, they're popular, sure. But, they're rockin'. They're rocking back and forth, dancing, and doing rock and roll..... And, it's like a rock, right. Rocks are like these little things. Right. They're hard and stuff. But they rock. And you want to rock. And when a girl says..... "Rock Me"....
"Change My Mind"-- Ironically.
"I Would"-- This is a great song if you want virtuous love, I mean, if you want someone to kill you. Killing is so bad. And, yet, so prevalent in our world today. So bad, though. We need more martyrs for love. This song can help you with that. Fair warning. But, then, nothing is fair.
"Over Again"-- This has happened many times before; it has happened before and it will happen again, but, this time it happened in London, *again*. Damn it, what about America! Sorry.
"Back for You"-- I need to listen to the entire album over again so that I remember each and every track.
"They Don't Know About Us"-- they might not even care, sadly enough.
"Summer Love"-- Tragic, almost. Something like that. Sorrowful. Not as much of that with the Beach Boys-- "she'll have fun fun fun until her daddy takes her T-Bird away"-- but, I don't know.
They earned it.
(10/10)
