mew-sic

mew is one of my very favorite bands in the world, and they recently came out with yet another epic masterpiece to blow our minds with! it's called, "no more stories are told today, i'm sorry they washed away, no more stories the world is grey, i'm tired let's wash away". yes, that is the title- more like a short peom, really.

mew actually used little pictures like this one on the album cover for some of the song titles.

 although i am in absolute love with the new addition i still think "frengers" is the best album of theirs to date. derek almost got a chance to open up for them at st. andrew's hall in detroit a couple years ago and we were totally geeked but, sadly, they ended up canceling it. :(  we're not sure why.

this is the song 'snow brigade' live from their "frengers" album. i guess this was at a danish award show. this is not the best picture but you get an idea. but what a fucking phenomenal performance! i always think how awesome it would have been to be able to watch that show in the front row with the snow blowing at them, and their scarves snapping in the wind- fucking tits!

this a video for the song, '156'. the meaning of this song has been debated. some think it's about a personal relationship with a girl that jonas knew, others say the number 156 is related to the occult. i've also heard it was true a story that made newspapers in sweden or something. an elephant and it's keeper, cali, had an extremely close bond for years but when cali died, the elephant got so depressed it stopped eating and starved itself to death. cali's employee number was 156 too. that's the one i choose to believe. it makes the most sense to me, especially when you watch the video. why else would the main character be an elephant? whatever the reason, the song is great.

for good measure i wanted to put a song in from "the glass handed kites" album. here is the url for a song called, 'the zookeeper's boy' if you feel the mew vibe as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WwkN_EUhJc