This Year 365 songs: January 6th
Jan. 6th, 2026 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrill Today's song is the Cow Song!
This is a song about cows, or really, about John Darnielle's affection for cows. It is not a deep or complex song. The annotations back me up on this, revealing that he picked a pre-programmed rhythm on the casio keyboard and wrote the song because he saw some cows one day (and that most of the time if the song has animas in the name or is about an animal, it was inspired by seeing an animal and thinking "gosh someone should write a song about that animal"—this is probably not the origin of "Up the Wolves" or "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod", but seems plausible for "Weekend in Western Illinois").
Cows: What's not to like? (on the other hand: I don't have a ton to say about this song or the annotation. It's fun, but it doesn't inspire a ton of deep reflection from me.)
This is a song about cows, or really, about John Darnielle's affection for cows. It is not a deep or complex song. The annotations back me up on this, revealing that he picked a pre-programmed rhythm on the casio keyboard and wrote the song because he saw some cows one day (and that most of the time if the song has animas in the name or is about an animal, it was inspired by seeing an animal and thinking "gosh someone should write a song about that animal"—this is probably not the origin of "Up the Wolves" or "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod", but seems plausible for "Weekend in Western Illinois").
Cows: What's not to like? (on the other hand: I don't have a ton to say about this song or the annotation. It's fun, but it doesn't inspire a ton of deep reflection from me.)
