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This one was so obnoxiously easy to pick I almost passed over my first choice for something less obvious. Surely I can do better than a song explicitly designed to depress? But no, apparently I can't.
I love Flogging Molly, but I don't always love Dave King's voice. When it comes to music, I tend to subscribe to the theory that "more polished = better", and his voice is anything but; it's rough, but not Tom-Waits-consistently-growly, his range isn't spectacular (especially not for a hair metal veteran!), and, idk, I spend a lot of my Flogging Molly listening time thinking about how their songs would sound with a different singer (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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But sometimes that total lack of perfection and polish is exactly what makes the song work - there is very little more heart-wrenching than that rough imperfect voice singing passionately about loss and heartbreak and all the horrible things we do to ourselves and each other throughout the course of a normal happiness-seeking lifetime. In The Story So Far, the roughness that I kind of dislike on their more upbeat stuff is exactly what makes the song powerful, is exactly why I can't even listen to this without getting weepy and depressed.
There's a reason I went right for Flogging Molly when I saw what today's assignment was, a reason I didn't go for them yesterday. Their more upbeat stuff is awesome, but heart-wrenching passionate depression is where they absolutely shine.
I love Flogging Molly, but I don't always love Dave King's voice. When it comes to music, I tend to subscribe to the theory that "more polished = better", and his voice is anything but; it's rough, but not Tom-Waits-consistently-growly, his range isn't spectacular (especially not for a hair metal veteran!), and, idk, I spend a lot of my Flogging Molly listening time thinking about how their songs would sound with a different singer (
mayqueen517 you may feel free to defriend me now).But sometimes that total lack of perfection and polish is exactly what makes the song work - there is very little more heart-wrenching than that rough imperfect voice singing passionately about loss and heartbreak and all the horrible things we do to ourselves and each other throughout the course of a normal happiness-seeking lifetime. In The Story So Far, the roughness that I kind of dislike on their more upbeat stuff is exactly what makes the song powerful, is exactly why I can't even listen to this without getting weepy and depressed.
There's a reason I went right for Flogging Molly when I saw what today's assignment was, a reason I didn't go for them yesterday. Their more upbeat stuff is awesome, but heart-wrenching passionate depression is where they absolutely shine.
