Again, I didn't have time to make a post yesterday. Well I did, but I was too tired. I went paintballing you see. 'Twas my first time too. I knew it would be painful, and it was my first experience of being shot at with something. It wasn't too bad. It was much better than I thought it would be. The paint balls do sting upon contact, and I've got a few bruises here and there. I'm fine though. It was all good fun.
This is the first of the two I'll do today. So here's another by a favourite band of mine. Yeah, TMBG.
"The Bells Are Ringing" is the final track on the band's last album from Elektra Records. "Factory Showroom" is the album's name.
I first heard the song due to the LAUNCHcast radio/website that Yahoo! owned years ago, it came up randomly one of the genre-assorted radios that were available. I heard it that one time, and so forgot about it pretty quickly. YouTube didn't exist that time, so to listen to a song in full for free on the Internet was a pretty hard thing to do.
I'm not a Malcolm in the Middle fan - I've never really watched the show before - but this song also featured in one episode called 'Christmas'. For that, I just assumed that the song was a Christmas tune, but that's only because of the mentioning of bells. Bells are something that are common at Christmas time, right? It's doesn't have anything to do with Christmas though. The subject of the song, in my opinion, is about this fad that's caught on by everyone, with the fad being represented as the bells in the song. The bridge brings light upon 'a girl with cotton in her ears' who is oblivious to it, but people go on about it and then begins to appreciate it. It's got a real '1984' theme about it.
At the end of the song, everybody's happy and those 'bells' (which are sung) keep on ringing amongst an increasing volume in marching drums.
I think it's a happy song, but with They Might Be Giants I can never really be sure.
Coming back soon.
Jamie.
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