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The Shins
the title says it all doesn't it...
my friend told me about them a couple of months ago and i have since become obsessed... anyone here like them?? [they'd have to be someone.... what's not to like about them?... (don't answer that... i don't want a list...)]
my friend told me about them a couple of months ago and i have since become obsessed... anyone here like them?? [they'd have to be someone.... what's not to like about them?... (don't answer that... i don't want a list...)]
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i dont know why... i get choked up and my stomach feels weird every time i hear caring is creepy
But caring is creepy will be the first song I'll listen to, when I get my computer back
Back in the day (a.k.a. high school), during my (rather expansive) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes phase, I started to get involved in theatre.
Anyway, long story short, a couple of my friends from theatre (both who could make me laugh until I cried on a regular basis) loved the Shins. They would play it backstage and sing along. Soon, I started to learn the lyrics and sing along (we were always proud when we actually knew what they were saying ("'and though the saints divine in ancient feeding lines. Their sentiment is just as hard to pluck from the vines'.... What the hell does that even mean?").
I liked Wincing the Night Away, but Chutes Too Narrow will always remind me of theatre and summer and high school. It's the CD that will make me remember my Mom singing along to Fighting in a Sack and putting it on repeat because she, in her words, "just LOOOVES this song!" (my mom is pretty awesome). It will remind me of sitting in the hallway of my school, waiting to go on for Antigone (we were a part of the chorus, YEAH), talking about how Zach Braff was SUUUCH A DREAMBOAT and quoting Scrubs until we keeled over.
Back in the day (a.k.a. high school), during my (rather expansive) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes phase, I started to get involved in theatre.
Anyway, long story short, a couple of my friends from theatre (both who could make me laugh until I cried on a regular basis) loved the Shins. They would play it backstage and sing along. Soon, I started to learn the lyrics and sing along (we were always proud when we actually knew what they were saying ("'and though the saints divine in ancient feeding lines. Their sentiment is just as hard to pluck from the vines'.... What the hell does that even mean?").
I liked Wincing the Night Away, but Chutes Too Narrow will always remind me of theatre and summer and high school. It's the CD that will make me remember my Mom singing along to Fighting in a Sack and putting it on repeat because she, in her words, "just LOOOVES this song!" (my mom is pretty awesome). It will remind me of sitting in the hallway of my school, waiting to go on for Antigone (we were a part of the chorus, YEAH), talking about how Zach Braff was SUUUCH A DREAMBOAT and quoting Scrubs until we keeled over.
You were in Antigone? ... I remember reading the book at school and finding it rather boring (may be because of the teacher, I dunno)
anyway, listened to Caring is creepy and i really really really like it.
I've had all the Shins albums on my comp for a long time, but I never gave them a proper listen until a few days ago, and now I'm like why didn't I listen to this before! They're lovely!
I've had all the Shins albums on my comp for a long time, but I never gave them a proper listen until a few days ago, and now I'm like why didn't I listen to this before! They're lovely!
hehe i agree with the "lovely" word. Only words like "adorable", "darlings", "sweet" come to mind when i listen to them.
They ARE lovely!
and they love Halloween
lovely lovely lovely
I'm in love with "Sea Legs" from their latest album, but I don't really know what its about..
Hah yeah, the Jean Anouilh version, not the Socrates version. It was my first excusion into theatre and, despite the depressing story, was still a blast.
But then I got the Garden State OST and fell in love with "Caring Is Creepy" and "New Slang." I never ended up getting Oh, Inverted World, though... but what I've heard of Wincing The Night Away, I really like. Time to give them a second chance, I suppose.