tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869780008733483838.post228486065101027069..comments2023-05-07T07:57:52.745-04:00Comments on Too many words, too many words: VenusIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05740401073988507304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869780008733483838.post-46786099798210971892007-08-10T17:11:00.000-04:002007-08-10T17:11:00.000-04:00Poor Vulcan. The Gods are always jerks, but he got...Poor Vulcan. The Gods are always jerks, but he got particularly short shrift, I always thought.Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05740401073988507304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869780008733483838.post-3664777901006208662007-08-10T16:04:00.000-04:002007-08-10T16:04:00.000-04:00There's a feeling of the intimacy of desperation i...There's a feeling of the intimacy of desperation in "Dust on the Window." It feels charged to me, and there's the classically suggestive line, "Tell me where can a girl get a meal." It sounds to be like someone deciding whether to stay with her lover.<BR/><BR/>I agree, and so does Vulcan, heh.Inverarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869780008733483838.post-2717149733006924662007-08-09T21:57:00.000-04:002007-08-09T21:57:00.000-04:00Well, I was going to deal with that when I came to...Well, I was going to deal with that when I came to "Whore," but I will say I definitely feel the reference is more literal here (if it's being made at all, that is!) than there.<BR/><BR/>I don't hear sexual tension in that song, although I do here <I>something</I> - can you elaborate on that a bit?<BR/><BR/>I always think of the goddess. Which isn't exactly eons away from my other take on it, Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05740401073988507304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869780008733483838.post-74111226874526011882007-08-09T15:00:00.000-04:002007-08-09T15:00:00.000-04:00I have a hard time taking the references to prosti...I have a hard time taking the references to prostitution in Low songs literally, because there doesn't seem to be the element of dissolution in their music that makes such references believable. The connotation of "selling yourself" is believable, but any element of sex really isn't. You know, I haven't really thought of it, but I think "Dust on the Window" is the first song in their catalog (Inverarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.com