Hmm, Sleeping Dogs deserves the nod, Trinidad would too if Getting Killed had a higher quality baseline and Islands of Men didn't exist. GY!BE is a bit of a sidestep
"Lest you think Iām overplaying this whole thing, trivia time: Costello himself did infamously say it sans leading āSā once"
This risks the false implication that he dropped the S on that specific lyric (the actual context to his bombs later down the lnie is far more pointed (as you apparently know) and does not bear conflating); Little Triggers itself is innocuous, if unastounding.
Implying that Deftones are above an embarrassing sexual non-sequitur also raises an eyebrow. There's a lot of protest-too-much on both sides of the Pink Cellphone argument, but I cannot accept it as an alltime low for a band who built their career on horny seethe and wrote the lyrics to e.g. Elite. SNW might be their only near-consistent record, but there are enough ratty screams that it's not even the biggest offender on the album
Yeah sorry but I feel like if you're going to harp on an Elvis Costello song for making you hear the n word it should probably be the song that uhh actually uses the n word
A fair point, though to editorialize a bit, Costello's discog is one I'm admittedly not super familiar with; This Year's Model is the album of his I've by far gotten the most replay value out of, and I have not yet heard the entirety of Armed Forces, nor would I want to prematurely commit to a last-minute take on it just to ~maybe~ bash "Oliver's Army," a song that I'm pretty lukewarm about but understand his intent with.
What I meant to allude to there was his later use of (and apology for) the word outside musical context in the widely-publicized 1979 bar fight. None of this changes the fact that, unfortunate rhyme choice or not, "Little Triggers" drives me up the wall in a way rarely paralleled by the worst songs on other albums I like, even if my level of vitriol seems silly or unjustified compared to some of these other selections. Is what it is, we've all got our takes.
I've altered some phrasing in the paragraph in question to hopefully clarify this a bit. Appreciate the feedback from you and Hugh in any case
It would be a pretty hot take to Bash Oliver's Army and I personally wouldn't touch the "can the Irish reclaim That Word" debate with a ten foot pole myself lmao
Honestly it's tough for me to think of many tracks that really stand out as a singular blemish on an otherwise great tracklist- I guess my first pick would be "Love Again" on Run the Jewels 2, such a comprehensively unsexy sex song that even a Gangsta Boo verse can't do much for it.
Hmm, Sleeping Dogs deserves the nod, Trinidad would too if Getting Killed had a higher quality baseline and Islands of Men didn't exist. GY!BE is a bit of a sidestep
"Lest you think Iām overplaying this whole thing, trivia time: Costello himself did infamously say it sans leading āSā once"
This risks the false implication that he dropped the S on that specific lyric (the actual context to his bombs later down the lnie is far more pointed (as you apparently know) and does not bear conflating); Little Triggers itself is innocuous, if unastounding.
Implying that Deftones are above an embarrassing sexual non-sequitur also raises an eyebrow. There's a lot of protest-too-much on both sides of the Pink Cellphone argument, but I cannot accept it as an alltime low for a band who built their career on horny seethe and wrote the lyrics to e.g. Elite. SNW might be their only near-consistent record, but there are enough ratty screams that it's not even the biggest offender on the album
Zack and Jesper moving like Heat LeBron and DWade rn
Yeah sorry but I feel like if you're going to harp on an Elvis Costello song for making you hear the n word it should probably be the song that uhh actually uses the n word
A fair point, though to editorialize a bit, Costello's discog is one I'm admittedly not super familiar with; This Year's Model is the album of his I've by far gotten the most replay value out of, and I have not yet heard the entirety of Armed Forces, nor would I want to prematurely commit to a last-minute take on it just to ~maybe~ bash "Oliver's Army," a song that I'm pretty lukewarm about but understand his intent with.
What I meant to allude to there was his later use of (and apology for) the word outside musical context in the widely-publicized 1979 bar fight. None of this changes the fact that, unfortunate rhyme choice or not, "Little Triggers" drives me up the wall in a way rarely paralleled by the worst songs on other albums I like, even if my level of vitriol seems silly or unjustified compared to some of these other selections. Is what it is, we've all got our takes.
I've altered some phrasing in the paragraph in question to hopefully clarify this a bit. Appreciate the feedback from you and Hugh in any case
It would be a pretty hot take to Bash Oliver's Army and I personally wouldn't touch the "can the Irish reclaim That Word" debate with a ten foot pole myself lmao
Honestly it's tough for me to think of many tracks that really stand out as a singular blemish on an otherwise great tracklist- I guess my first pick would be "Love Again" on Run the Jewels 2, such a comprehensively unsexy sex song that even a Gangsta Boo verse can't do much for it.
Say what you want about Pink Cellphone, but I appreciate Deftones speaking out for once on British social issues