(30) Days of Music: Day 29
Oct. 15th, 2010 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sechan19Pity the monsters.
One song that gives you the creeps
"Stalker," Recoil.
This song, written and sung by Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, takes as its point of view the perspective of the titular stalker as he rants to his victim about her various methods of wronging him. And it's terrifying. Unlike Peter Gabriel's "Intruder," which exudes a kind of intellectual analysis in spite of the eeriness of the narrative, "Stalker" seems to scream directly from McCarthy's oh-so tortured soul. (It screams so palpably, in fact, that you almost have to wonder about Douglas McCarthy.) In the end, as the stalker shrieks at his victim "You are nothing without me!" you can feel that his heartbreaking desire is not to convince her of this fact, but to convince himself. McCarthy's stalker is a pathetic figure: sick, sad, and solitary. And so he always will be.
(30) Days of Music: Meme List
Day 1: Your favorite song
Day 2: A song that makes you cry
Day 3: A song that makes you dance
Day 4: Your favorite male singer
Day 5: Your favorite female singer
Day 6: Your favorite band
Day 7: One band/singer you're ashamed to admit you like
Day 8: One band/singer whose popularity you will never understand
Day 9: A song that reminds you of an ex
Day 10: A song that reminds you of your father
Day 11: A song that reminds you of your mother
Day 12: A song that makes you want to have sex
Day 13: A song you sing in the shower
Day 14: A song from the year you were born
Day 15: A song you liked in high school
Day 16: The first song in your mp3 folder
Day 17: The last song in your mp3 folder
Day 18: An instrumental song you like
Day 19: Your favorite love song
Day 20: Your favorite breakup song
Day 21: A song that makes you want to break stuff
Day 22: Your favorite song from a movie
Day 23: Your favorite duet
Day 24: Your favorite cover song
Day 25: Your favorite song from 2010 (so far)
Day 26: Your favorite music video
Day 27: One song in your mp3 folder you're pretty sure no one else has
Day 28: One song that needs to never be played again
Day 29: One song that gives you the creeps
Day 30: A song you'd like played at your funeral
One song that gives you the creeps
"Stalker," Recoil.
This song, written and sung by Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, takes as its point of view the perspective of the titular stalker as he rants to his victim about her various methods of wronging him. And it's terrifying. Unlike Peter Gabriel's "Intruder," which exudes a kind of intellectual analysis in spite of the eeriness of the narrative, "Stalker" seems to scream directly from McCarthy's oh-so tortured soul. (It screams so palpably, in fact, that you almost have to wonder about Douglas McCarthy.) In the end, as the stalker shrieks at his victim "You are nothing without me!" you can feel that his heartbreaking desire is not to convince her of this fact, but to convince himself. McCarthy's stalker is a pathetic figure: sick, sad, and solitary. And so he always will be.
(30) Days of Music: Meme List
Day 1: Your favorite song
Day 2: A song that makes you cry
Day 3: A song that makes you dance
Day 4: Your favorite male singer
Day 5: Your favorite female singer
Day 6: Your favorite band
Day 7: One band/singer you're ashamed to admit you like
Day 8: One band/singer whose popularity you will never understand
Day 9: A song that reminds you of an ex
Day 10: A song that reminds you of your father
Day 11: A song that reminds you of your mother
Day 12: A song that makes you want to have sex
Day 13: A song you sing in the shower
Day 14: A song from the year you were born
Day 15: A song you liked in high school
Day 16: The first song in your mp3 folder
Day 17: The last song in your mp3 folder
Day 18: An instrumental song you like
Day 19: Your favorite love song
Day 20: Your favorite breakup song
Day 21: A song that makes you want to break stuff
Day 22: Your favorite song from a movie
Day 23: Your favorite duet
Day 24: Your favorite cover song
Day 25: Your favorite song from 2010 (so far)
Day 26: Your favorite music video
Day 27: One song in your mp3 folder you're pretty sure no one else has
Day 28: One song that needs to never be played again
Day 29: One song that gives you the creeps
Day 30: A song you'd like played at your funeral
