I think their music as a whole speaks very well to the subject material of Suicide Watch Songs, and that is why it has been so hard to pick.
I have wanted to do a Black Heart Procession song for as long as I have written this blog. The band immediately became one of my favorites. A good friend of mine took matters into his own hands and put on The Black Heart Procession. I had Pandora Radio running some random channel in the background and eventually it was time to switch stations. Some friends were over unwinding from the hectic day with their families. I first heard The Black Heart Procession two years ago on Christmas Eve. "Guess I'll Forget You" by The Black Heart Procession from Three Today we look at "Guess I'll Forget You" from their 2000 release Three
AIMEE MANN MAGNOLIA SOUNDTRACK YOUTUBE FULL
The band put out their sixth full length album, aptly titled Six in late 2009. This was the same collection of musicians that produced bands such as Pinback and Three Mile Pilot. Why not, it's not like it's going to stop.Īs always I encourage comments, criticisms, and suggestions either here, or at 1997 The Black Heart Procession was forged in the San Diego music scene. It's not going to stop, so maybe you should. "It's not going to stop, so just give up." It's as simple as that. Often I write of songs that leave the protaganist lost and wandering, with no solution and their problems ever worsening. "Prepare a list of what you need before you sign away the deed, 'cause it's not going to stop 'til you wise up."įinally we are left with the most important line of the song. The bridge is an acknowledgement that the path ahead is rough. Hide the problem, "but it's not gong to stop till you wise up."Īfter two Verse/Chorus combinations we come to a short bridge that transistions seemlessly into the final chorus. "You think one drink will sshrink you'till you're underground and living down." Shrink ourselves until we are hidden. We search so hard to find any way we can to fix the problem, mask the problem, ignore the problem. "You're sure there's a cure," The real solution is always the hardest path. We run the same behavior patterns over and over again and expect ing us deeper and to be happy, but "it" keeps piling ontop of us, buriying us deeper and deeper, but it's not going to stop. No it's not going to stop until you wise up." A friend of mine is fond of saying that the definition of insanity is doing something the same way multiple times and expecting different results. "But now you know it's not going to stop. Things, outside influences, accomplishments, wants, needs, none of it makes one happier. "You got what you want, but you can hardly stand it." Ain't that the rub. This is a case where when the singer says "you" she truly means the listener. By playing the pronoun game Mann draws us into the song because we automatically transfer our situation onto the the character of the song. The lyrics start out "It's not what you thought when you first began it." The easy interperetation is that "it" is life, but I think the smarter interperetation is 'situation as life.' By this I mean that none of us have any real expectations for life until we have something to lose, or gain. As you can tell, the characters of the ensemble cast are out of sorts just before the third act happens and all hell breaks loose. Magnolia is pretty overtly split up into three acts, with this song as the closer to the second act. The video posted above is not the music video for the song, well I guess it is, but it also takes place in the movie. (Also nominated that year was "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.)ĭirector Paul Thomas Anderson is known to have been listening to Aimee Mann's music a lot during the writng of the script for Magnolia and even borrowing character ideas and lyrics as lines of dialouge.He also made it a point to integrate the music with the movie.
One of them, "Save Me" was nominated for the Acadamy Award for Best Original Song, only to lose to the Phil Collins song "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan. The soundtrack includes nine songs from singer/songwriter Aimee Mann.
AIMEE MANN MAGNOLIA SOUNDTRACK YOUTUBE MOVIE
If you have not seen this movie you need to. That is the theme from the movie Magnolia, that we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. " Wise Up" by Aimee Mann from Music from the motion picture Magnolia We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.