song review

song review Order Description 1) Choose two of the following six tracks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJYQbCgIxvGFk3bxobHsJKORYrB8yQ6& Elliott Smith, Between the Bars [indie rock/folk] Agalloch, You Were But A Ghost In My Arms [atmospheric black metal] Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come [post-hardcore] Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Moya [post-rock] Tool, The Grudge [alternative metal] Silverchair, Emotion Sickness [post-grunge] 2) Prepare the analysis of the chosen track (on your own or in groups) using the analytic approach that we have used in the course: style and genre, form and lyrics (you can GET lyrics from the Internet), time, phrasing, instrumentation and texture, vocal and instrumental strategies. 3) 3-4 paragraphs Requirements and lyrics 1) Choose two of the following six tracks: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJYQbCgIxvGFk3bxobHsJKORYrB8yQ6& feature=mh_lolz Elliott Smith, Between the Bars [indie rock/folk] Agalloch, You Were But A Ghost In My Arms [atmospheric black metal] Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come [post-hardcore] Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Moya [post-rock] Tool, The Grudge [alternative metal] Silverchair, Emotion Sickness [post-grunge] 2) Prepare the analysis of the chosen track (on your own or in groups) using the analytic approach that we have used in the course: style and genre, form and lyrics (you can GET lyrics from the Internet), time, phrasing, instrumentation and texture, vocal and instrumental strategies. 3)  3-4 paragraphs Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come Hey baby, you never felt this good Freedom through the stereo and you wish you could Take a bite, do a dance and get lost on a crusade Jump on this soul train, destination unknown We're all dressed up We got nowhere to go All dressed up with nowhere to go I told you so (X2) We're all dressed up We got nowhere to go All dressed up I told you so (X3) Hey baby, never felt this free A pair of new shoes and a punk rock show to see Give acclamation to these blue ribbon babies And check the calendar for the expiration date We've all been bitten We've all been underground We've all been beaten, battered, bruised Told to get down We're all dressed up We got nowhere to go All dressed up with nowhere to go I told you so (X2) We're all dressed up We got nowhere to go All dressed up I told you so (X3) Adolescent beats with a new thing to see Smashed guitars just like you've seen on tv With burning speakers and with flaming hair We'll have a riot right here (X2) Silverchair, Emotion Sickness Erupt again ignore the pill And I won't let it show Sacrifice the tortures Orchestral tear cash-flow Increase delete escape defeat It's all that matters to you Cotton case for an iron pill Distorted eyes When everything is clearly dying Burn my knees and Burn my knees and Burn my knees and Emotion sickness Addict with no heroine Emotion sickness Distorted eyes When everything is clearly dying Burn my knees and Burn my knees and pray Burn my knees and Burn my knees and pray All my friends say Get up get up get up get up Get up get up get up Won't you stop my pain? Emotion sickness Addict with no heroine Good things will pass (It helps with excess access) Lessons learnt Emotion sickness Lessons learnt 3 Agalloch, You Were But a Ghost in my Arms Like snowfall, you cry a silent storm Your tears paint rivers on this oaken wall… Amber nectar, misery ichor …Cascading in streams of hallowed form For each stain, a forsaken shadow You are the lugubrious spirit Etched in the oak of wonder You are the sullen voice and silent storm Each night I lay Awakened by her shivering silent voice From the shapes in the corridor walls. It pierces the solitude like that of a distant scream In the pitch-black forest of my delusion… With each passing day, a deeper grave… "Why did you leave me to die?" "Why did you abandon me?" "Why did you walk away and leave me bitterly yearning?" Her haunting, contorted despair was etched into the wood's grain Though fire rages within me, no fire burns fiercer than her desire The shape whispers my name… I damn this oak! I damn her sorrow! I damn these oaken corridors That bear the ghosts of those I've thrown away! Though tempted I am to caress her texture divine And taste her pain sweet, sweet like brandy wine; I must burn these halls, these corridors And silence her shrill, tormenting voice …Forever… Like snowfall, you cried a silent storm No tears stain this dust in my hands But from this ashen gray, her voice still Whispers my name… You were the lugubrious spirit Who haunted the oak of wonder You were the geist that warned this frozen silent storm You were but a ghost in my arms 4 Tool, The Grudge Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell. Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again. Humbled again. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end. Saturn ascends, comes round again. Saturn ascends, from one or ten. Ignorant to the damage done. Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all that and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen. Wear your grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper. Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, Defining, and we're sinking deeper. Saturn comes back around to show you everything Let's you choose what you will, will not see and then Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again Spits you out like a child, light and innocent. Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or Drags you down like a stone To consume you till you choose to let this go. Choose to let this go... Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and Transmutate this cold and fated anchor. Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and Transmutate these leaden grudges into gold. Let go. Elliott Smith, Between the Bars Drink up baby, stay up all night With the things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make Drink up with me now, forget all about The pressure of days, do what I say And I'll make you okay, drive them away The image is stuck in your head People you've been before That you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still Drink up baby, look at the stars Ill kiss you again between the bars Where I'm seeing you there with your hands in the air Waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine Keep you apart, deep in my heart Separate from the rest where I like you the best Keep the things you forgot People you've been before That you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still