American Water might just have one of the best opening lines
going. When someone you associate with slacking off and lazy rock and roll
(think Eric jk, I love you Eric!) tells you that they have come close to achieving
perfection it just has a certain connotation to it that is really something.
Its delivered in such a nonchalant, uncaring way, and interestingly enough if
there is anything that approaches perfection as the opening line holds, that
opening line itself is what does it. Random Rules, the song that holds that
golden nugget of a line is everything about the lo-fi scene perfectly summed up
in a few short verses. The narrator complains about the existential randomness
of the universe, complains about the structure of line dances, “where
everything is so Democratic and cool”, and even admits that most of what he
says is “lifted off of mensroom walls”. Couple that with a Stephen Malkmus guitar
solo, and there you have it, the perfect recipe for half-assed art, that is in
its own right art, fully assed.
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