Getting lost in an OLP song

UltraViolet · Post by **UltraViolet** » 9/30/2002, 5:53 pm

hey guys have any of you ever gotten lost in an OLP song. I mean to get so caught up in it, that nothing else matters. If so what songs.
every time i hear BBTS & SAAG i get lost in the lyrics to the point of feeling the emotion of the narrator in the songs. Seriously, it is as if I am part of the song and feel very emotional and passionate about them.
Has that happen to anyone else. :love:

StaceyJ575 · Post by **StaceyJ575** » 9/30/2002, 6:51 pm

I love how the music can just take you away. That's definitely happened to me, to quite a few of their songs. I get caught up when I'm in the car usually...singing at the top of my lungs, drumming on the steering wheel, and then realizing that others can probably see me. :oops:

I know they don't know me, but hey, I'm shy! Sometimes you can just totally put yourself in the song, like DYLI...

liam · Post by **liam** » 9/30/2002, 6:52 pm

I love OLP, everytime i take the bus i get one of their songs stuck in my head and it all comes down to me saying "this would be a cool video"

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/30/2002, 7:44 pm

I totally get lost in the songs "Blister" "In Repair" "Waited" and "Carnival" I just think about the lyrics, and imagine how the video could have been done and how amazing it truly would have been if I could have made the video. I always come up with these really artsy, imagrey videos where you'd have to listen, watch, and think at the same time to understand. I was beat to the punch with In Repair. The only thing I would have done was like have some shots of the band performing, but with some filters and drawings over them. Don't get me started with Blister or Are You Sad. I have these imensly complicated videos made for the songs, and either would be classics like Thief or hated like Life.

luckyJQ9 · Post by **luckyJQ9** » 9/30/2002, 7:47 pm

I get lost in "Blister", "Stealing Babies", "4am", "Are You Sad?", "Naveed", and "The Wonderful Future". I get all taken away by the lyrics and the sound and..ahh..i dunno. i just really get into those songs, to the point where i daydream and all that stuff. :mrgreen:

megxyz128 · Post by **megxyz128** » 9/30/2002, 7:49 pm

Yeah, that happens to me every single time I listen to "In Repair" or "The Wonderful Future".

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/30/2002, 8:00 pm

Oh God you should hear my ideas for The Wonderful Future. I am just so creative when it comes to things I am not capable of doing for a living.

luckyJQ9 · Post by **luckyJQ9** » 9/30/2002, 8:01 pm

hmm..sounds like me and my wild ideas about playing the drums. i have all these great rhythems in my head that i want to use. problem is..i can't play drums :neutral:

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/30/2002, 8:03 pm

You can learn to do the drums. At the moment, I am teaching myself the bass. My friend gave me his $800 Fender so I am putting it to good use.

Furious George · Post by **Furious George** » 9/30/2002, 8:05 pm

Everytime I hear The Wonderful Future I think to myself that it really stands as a pinnacle of greatness, a something that marks Mike's atmospheric sound at its best, preceding his fateful departure.

luckyJQ9 · Post by **luckyJQ9** » 9/30/2002, 8:07 pm

hmm...i wish my friends would just throw unwanted musical instruments at me. i've wanted to play drums for a really long time but i don't know anyone who has a set or anything, which sucks. When I was in fourth grade and about to pick my band instrument of choice someone told me not to play drums because i would get arthritis..and of course i listened to them and picked the trumpet. so now i have a special skill that i'll never use unless i start a damn ska band. :neutral:

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/30/2002, 8:09 pm

I can play bass in your ska band!

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 9/30/2002, 8:13 pm

The Wonderful Future makes me think of flight. Just pure, boundless, free flight.

A lot of the thier songs fuel my imagine be I don't have the artistic ability to get it all out through a medium.

luckyJQ9 · Post by **luckyJQ9** » 9/30/2002, 8:17 pm

the sad part is..i played trumpet for 9 years and i still don't think i'm good enough to have a ska band. that's why i quit. now i'm just a slacker who is attempting to learn guitar.

areusad831 · Post by **areusad831** » 9/30/2002, 8:35 pm

All For You and Do You Like It? are the two big songs that I get into driving in my car. Onlookers must think im crazy

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 9/30/2002, 11:15 pm

wtf is SAAG?
I get lost in Starseed...I love to play that sonf on my guitar

theo · Post by **theo** » 9/30/2002, 11:17 pm

SAAG = Story About A Girl

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 10/1/2002, 10:15 am

oooOooOoO.Story aboot a girl

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 10/1/2002, 2:41 pm

*sigh* I used to get lost in OLP songs all the time when I first started listening. Now...not so much. :neutral:

Usually Bright Eyes songs do it for me now.

God, do I miss that feeling. :cry:

A few days ago, I listened to "Life" and it really got to me, and sometimes Not Enough does it too, but I have to be in a certain mood.

Songs that I used to get lost in ALL the time: Blister, Potato Girl, Let You Down, Carnival, All My Friends and Everyone's a Junkie. The other songs, sometimes, depending on my mood.

[reminiscing] Back in the day, when I got happiness, I used to play it for hours upon end, and every song used to be so meaningful to me, so profound, so deep. And then I got Clumsy....wow! It was like an eternal state of bliss and/or sadness. Those two cd's fit any mood I was in. OLP was my therapy for those troubled high school years. [/reminiscing]

luckyJQ9 · Post by **luckyJQ9** » 10/1/2002, 2:43 pm

^^ what happened between then and now?

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