Monday, April 16, 2007

Flyentology

EL-P (ft. Trent Reznor): "Flyentology"
From the album, I'll Sleep When You're Dead.

It's always the same with me and EL-P's music. It flies directly over my head at least three times before I catch some tiny detail that gets me on board. And once I am on board with EL-P shit, i am fuckin signed up. The rest of the album all of the sudden sounds 10 times better, hidden punchlines and shrapnel come clear through those dense-ass productions, and I become a member of the fucking fan club.

The whole album was all indiscriminate murk, anger, and breaks until I, with a drunk gorgeous girl hanging from my neck neck by her lips like a Remora with a nice ass, belted this chorus at the top of my lungs on Saturday night:

Keep me in the sky, that's all that I cry
I'll become your servant if it's worth your time
Keep me in the sky, that's all that I'll say
I'll become your soldier, at least for this day

No!
There are no atheists in the foxholes
No!
There is no intellect in the air
No!
There are no scientists on the way down
Just a working example of faith versus physics {*2X*}


This song, quite literally, is about finding God in while your plane is going down. And it is genius, the crisis even has the man who once screamed, "God is Dead" to beg for salvation from a God he has forsaken many times, with evidence to prove it. If Reznor gets on his knees to become "His soldier", and Brooklyn cynic EL-P cracks open his seat-back bible when the Boeing wings get ripped off, I could believe that there truly are "No Atheists in a Foxhole".

Call me dense for missing all of this, I even saw the video and still didn't get it, but that's how it goes with me an EL-P music. I didn't like Fantastic Damage until I heard the Corporate resignation in his voice at the end of this line from "Stepfather Factory":

In an effort to find an energy source our company's learned
The cheapest way to keep his battery running is with booze


Its that easy.

After i figured out what the fuck "Flyentology" was about (I'm fucking dense), I was able to hear the tiny but vicious "SON OF A BITCH" buried right before the second chorus in "Smithereens (Stop Cryin')". A tiny little orgasm for me that sent me digging for another brutal Easter Egg on the album.

The point is, go get the album...I mean...one track has fucking Cat Power on it too, and I am miles away from getting the meaning of that one...my audio boner (Cat Power is very attractive) keeps bumping into the track.




To hear the song, click the video link, its on that page. If you can't find, you stupid.

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