Two musical questions

[rachelmanija]

1. What are the instruments playing in this song before the vocals come in? An organ? And... a piano? Chimes? Glockenspiel?

2. Please name a few songs with unusual subjects. Ideally, not pure novelty songs like "Mommy Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

Comments

[vass]

The album about John Darnielle and his friends when they were tweakers is We Shall All Be Healed, not Sunset Tree. Sunset Tree is more about child abuse.

That said, seconding the Mountain Goats as a source of unusual topics for songs. 'Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod', for instance, is evolution as a metaphor for surviving abuse.

And 'Love, Love, Love' is about, well, the least unusual topic for a song ever, except that it's not romantic love, it's love in a variety of forms and the things people do for it, citing Crime and Punishment and Nirvana as examples.

Oh, and 'Insurance Fraud #2'. Which is about... insurance fraud.

And he's written more than one song about the prophet Elijah.

[kore]

ARGH, HOW COULD I GET THAT WRONG //dies of shame

[vass]

Because they're both awesome albums, probably. :D