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."
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From: [personal profile] recessional


Vienna Teng has many.

"Homecoming (Walter's Song)" is a narrative of a man coming to peace in a hotel room, "A Decade and One" is a woman reflecting on the past ten years of her life, "Mission Street" is a night on the eponymous street narrated by what sounds like a street busker, "Shasta" is a woman making the choice to keep a baby, "Passage" is the time after a woman's death in a car crash narrated by her ghost, "Whatever You Want" is the story of a white collar criminal getting his comeuppance via the people he took for granted, "1br/1ba" is a woman after a breakup trying to get used to her new living space, "In Another Life" imagines reincarnation through several lives, "Grandmother Song" is from the pov of Teng's grandmother disapproving of her life choices, "No Gringo" imagines a future where the US economy has collapsed completely, from the pov of a child whose family illegally seeks work in other countries, "Radio" recreates the anxiety of listening to all the bad things that happen in the world and imagining they're happening to you (while everyone's sure it "can't happen here"), "Watershed" narrates global flooding from the pov of the planet/flood, and basically the ENTIRETY of AIMS is non-standard.
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She really is neat. I remember the first time I heard "Passenger" ("I died in a car crash two days ago Was unrecognizable When they pulled me from the gears No one's fault, no one's bottle No one's teenage pride or throttle"), my heart stopped.
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Yeah, it's gorgeous, but not something I would ever listen to casually.
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