This Year 365 songs: January 7th
Jan. 7th, 2026 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrill Today's song is "Pure Milk" (I see what you did there, John)
This is a weird song. I'm not sure I can explain what makes it weird, after all, if you listened to the last six songs, its not like any of those are "normal" songs. But even by that metric: this song is weird. John is singing in a weird way, the lyrics have this conspiratorial tone (you, the listener are being invited to participate in some crime with the narrator). I definitely like this one among the most of the ones I've encountered so far through the book (second place probably goes to Going to Alaska).
The annotations are mostly about Darnielle liking this song, and his own relationship to not knowing the narrative details that are unstated in the song, and his own lingering curiosity about the answers. I guess The Author is Dead.
This is a weird song. I'm not sure I can explain what makes it weird, after all, if you listened to the last six songs, its not like any of those are "normal" songs. But even by that metric: this song is weird. John is singing in a weird way, the lyrics have this conspiratorial tone (you, the listener are being invited to participate in some crime with the narrator). I definitely like this one among the most of the ones I've encountered so far through the book (second place probably goes to Going to Alaska).
The annotations are mostly about Darnielle liking this song, and his own relationship to not knowing the narrative details that are unstated in the song, and his own lingering curiosity about the answers. I guess The Author is Dead.
