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Obsessive Vices & Virtues release post
If you have no interest in my giddy bouncing re: Panic! at the Disco's new album, feel free to move along.
Notes from "first" listen-through (ha ha ha like I haven't been listen to the FB stream on repeat for the last week. Like I didn't create a sock puppet FB account JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE. Um. But I hadn't downloaded any of the leaks.)
Instrumental bits!
There are extra instrumental bits at the end of Hurricane and The Calendar. Don't know how I feel about that! Are they on the leak? It's weird, these unexpected changes in the album I've been listening to on repeat for the last week.
Sheep, Wolves, other H/C AUs
So, looking at the liner notes, it turns out the lyric in "Trade Mistakes" I thought was "If I could trade mistakes with you" is actually "If I could trade mistakes for sheep." I like my version a whole lot better, honestly. I was vaguely convinced that it was from Spencer's POV in Wednesday Night Boys or And Miles to Go Before I Sleep or some other epic hurt/comfort AU about Spencer taking care of Ryan. Although now I am beginning to be curious about whether this album has the secret plot of being the sheep album to Ryan's scrapped wolf album?
According to the liner notes, Jon didn't have a hand in any of these songs, and Ryan had a hand only in Nearly Witches. Nearly Witches was already obviously filled with Ryan Ross lyrics before I saw the liner notes, and the version of it on the CitizensFOB mixtape in 2008 was strongly indicative of it being from the Wolf Album.
Because I am nothing if not a bit obsessive, I have made myself a table of the 58 seconds worth of lyrics from the 2008 version compared to what's in the 2011 version.
Animal references in general:
"I believe that half the time I am a wolf among the sheep gnawing at the wool over my eyes."
"digested them with wolf intestines"
"If I could trade mistakes for sheep, count me away before you sleep."
"They said, 'If you don't let it out, you're gonna let it eat you away.' Well, I'd rather be a cannibal, baby animals like me don't talk anyway."
"I'm a fly that's trapped in a web but I'm thinking that my spider's dead."
"Asleep in the hive, I guess all the buzzing got to me."
Any more?
Hurricane
HA, IT DOES SAY 'HE'! My ears weren't broken on that one. But now that I have peered at the lyrics I am worried that it's a G-d reference. Which might be concerning in a song that is otherwise about leading a revolution in one's bedroom, setting all the zippers free, declaring no war, no clothes, etc. And it IS a lowercase 'h' in 'he' in the liner notes, so WHO KNOWS. The mystery: ongoing.
Bonus tracks:
Still kinda meh about them, actually :/ "Bittersweet" is fun (although the 'woo's are sort of freaking me out after listening to the CitizensFOB version of "Nearly Witches" too many times). I suspect that I'll wind up being oddly affectionate before too long, since that is the pattern of me and this band. And "Bittersweet" does have that nice throaty low Bden section, yum.
Looking forward to seeing what the final two extra songs next week are.
Also, Adorable boys are adorable Bden in #7! The pair of them in #3! My heart!
Notes from "first" listen-through (ha ha ha like I haven't been listen to the FB stream on repeat for the last week. Like I didn't create a sock puppet FB account JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE. Um. But I hadn't downloaded any of the leaks.)
Instrumental bits!
There are extra instrumental bits at the end of Hurricane and The Calendar. Don't know how I feel about that! Are they on the leak? It's weird, these unexpected changes in the album I've been listening to on repeat for the last week.
Sheep, Wolves, other H/C AUs
So, looking at the liner notes, it turns out the lyric in "Trade Mistakes" I thought was "If I could trade mistakes with you" is actually "If I could trade mistakes for sheep." I like my version a whole lot better, honestly. I was vaguely convinced that it was from Spencer's POV in Wednesday Night Boys or And Miles to Go Before I Sleep or some other epic hurt/comfort AU about Spencer taking care of Ryan. Although now I am beginning to be curious about whether this album has the secret plot of being the sheep album to Ryan's scrapped wolf album?
According to the liner notes, Jon didn't have a hand in any of these songs, and Ryan had a hand only in Nearly Witches. Nearly Witches was already obviously filled with Ryan Ross lyrics before I saw the liner notes, and the version of it on the CitizensFOB mixtape in 2008 was strongly indicative of it being from the Wolf Album.
Because I am nothing if not a bit obsessive, I have made myself a table of the 58 seconds worth of lyrics from the 2008 version compared to what's in the 2011 version.
| Here I am composing a burlesque Out of where they rest their necks Sunken in their splintered cradles And ramshackle heads They asked for it As a boy I eat my wishes on golden tooth picks and digested them with wolf intestines. [I fell from the heavens As a fetish blessed with An operatic skeleton And as the stars watch me descend I crack a family tree and Chopped off all of the branches] |
Here I am composing a burlesque Out of where they rest their necks Sunken in their splintered cradles And ramshackle heads They asked for it As a girl You have set your heart on haunting me forever from the start. It's never silent. [no melodic parallel, jumps into "Ever since we met, I only shoot up with your perfume."] |
Animal references in general:
"I believe that half the time I am a wolf among the sheep gnawing at the wool over my eyes."
"If I could trade mistakes for sheep, count me away before you sleep."
"They said, 'If you don't let it out, you're gonna let it eat you away.' Well, I'd rather be a cannibal, baby animals like me don't talk anyway."
"I'm a fly that's trapped in a web but I'm thinking that my spider's dead."
"Asleep in the hive, I guess all the buzzing got to me."
Any more?
Hurricane
HA, IT DOES SAY 'HE'! My ears weren't broken on that one. But now that I have peered at the lyrics I am worried that it's a G-d reference. Which might be concerning in a song that is otherwise about leading a revolution in one's bedroom, setting all the zippers free, declaring no war, no clothes, etc. And it IS a lowercase 'h' in 'he' in the liner notes, so WHO KNOWS. The mystery: ongoing.
Bonus tracks:
Still kinda meh about them, actually :/ "Bittersweet" is fun (although the 'woo's are sort of freaking me out after listening to the CitizensFOB version of "Nearly Witches" too many times). I suspect that I'll wind up being oddly affectionate before too long, since that is the pattern of me and this band. And "Bittersweet" does have that nice throaty low Bden section, yum.
Looking forward to seeing what the final two extra songs next week are.
Also, Adorable boys are adorable Bden in #7! The pair of them in #3! My heart!