The first track on Reckoning is a song that I'm convinced exists simply to confound. I have no clue what's going on with this tune. I've purposely avoided looking up the lyrics because I enjoy the ambiguity. Take the first line - does it say:
The crowd, it was delayed because their noses wore off...
or
The crap it was to Lenon was the Moses runoff...
or even
We crept up there delighted, but he knows we want off...
Oh the song is fine, very catchy, very REM, just an odd way to kick off the album. Then again, the chorus swells to something approaching a mainstream pop song: Find my harborcoat, can't go outside without it. It's almost sweet. But then again, maybe it's dark. I don't know.
One other conundrum: on the last chorus, the guitar just sings. Where have you been the whole song, Pete? Was it there before, just buried in the mix? Is it a totally new track? I'll defer to Tad on that.
1 comment:
zep does that where the guitar sounds so different in some places, it sounds like it could have been overdubbed on a different day or week or month.
it is a nice lift at the end here.
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