Magnetic Fields – 100,000 Fireflies
So, I’m gonna try something different for a bit here, I’m going to upload songs I like, and write about them. Does that make me an Audioblogger?
Anyways…
Today’s obsession is 100,000 Fireflies from the Magnetic Fields record The Wayward Bus off the 1994 Merge Records release.
I first heard this on a mix tape made for a friend of mine by a guy who ran his own noise label, and released small runs of odd records with odd packaging (like one that was packaged w/raw meat, and saran wrapped shut so it arrived full of maggots). So it was odd that such a naive and charming song found it’s way onto this mix. I’d been listening to Superchunk for several years, and was familiar with their version of this tune off of Incidental Music. Susan Anway is sublime, lullaby’ing over a toy piano and keyboard, that makes me picture New Order drawn like the Muppet Babies.
The narcotic, passive yearning of “Why do we still live here, in this repulsive town…” fits well with my feelings on my own little midwestern burg, and I’ve always loved the idea that a Dobro sounds like a Mountain Range in Love.
Anyway, enjoy, and bear with me while I figure out how to write about this stuff.