thump thump thump thump

i am suppressing a desire to excuse my lack of musical knowledge in the face of your expert posts. i have literally erased said self-reproach in favor of this intro, which now is fulfilling the same function despite my wishes. fuck me.

(so of all the weeks to begin this exercise/forum, we get impulsive at a point when i have not actively listened to music in several weeks. (more story than it's worth.) so how to pick a song from the ether? you very nearly got george michael's "careless whisper" due to my friend and co-worker cramming it into my brain this morning, and with it my wandering into the preponderance of saxophone in 80s pop hits, but i will save that jewel for later. let it compress into something more dazzlingly stupid. waiting for something good to hit, you get a post that initiates with a parenthetical.) yes, here instead you get one of the best songs i know to be about not having any ideas for a song. just pounding something out, throwing it away and recognizing its charm. the incessant drum beat might as well be don music's frustration on high speed repeat. the lyrics are squat. but one run-on sentence front loaded with conjunctions eliding them at the end. the guitar never gets picked up, but this is a drum and guitar band, so a vocaled riff comes in to seal the deal and fulfill the lyrics. half the song is comprised of this, the sound you make when you can't remember a song or you're imitating what a song should sound like or you're trying to figure out what the song should sound like or you're doodling a riff on a scratch pad. you can hardly call it a song--an album full of it would be grating, and the single wouldn't likely sell--but sandwich it a few songs into your breakout album and hey, you just made somethin outta nuthin. my only hesitation with this: it sounds a bit polished for what it is, and sometimes i think that may be my one small quibble with the white stripes.

White Stripes "Little Room"