The Thursday Tune 


Or, A New Feature 

Often while listening to my music, I come across a song that I just don't think people know and that they really ought to. So, as a public service, I am introducing the Thursday Tune: a song that you really should get.

The inaugural song is "Super-Connected," by Belly off of the album, King (1995)

I'm a big Belly fan, and everyone really should be because they have hooks a-plenty, inventive harmonies, amazing choruses, and interesting and even inscrutable lyrics.

"Super-Connected" is a song that combines all of these Belly qualities.

The song starts quiet, murky, slow with the lyric that will repeat through the song:

On your third broken window
With your hair full of glass
Throw your clothes in the hallway
Just a sheet on your back

Just then, Belly gives you just a moment to get this image in your head before the guitars kick in and beat quickens. Now there is insistence, now there is a compelling movement forward.

Then, while Tonya Donnelly sings, she also speaks underneath, in rhythm, yet also just off.

Then, when we get to the chorus--

Are there heartstrings connected
to the wings you've got slapped on your back?
Better climb through the window cause I'm closing the door.

--we are further charging forward, as Donnelly has chosen the perfect range for her voice to sing strong, but not screeching.

I could go on, but the song just makes you want to headbang for no apparent reason, and there is very little wrong with that.

Runners-up from Belly: "Untitled and Unsung" (rollicking and unapologetically sexy) and "Now They'll Sleep" (if only for the lyric, "You know the shape my breath will take before I let it out") 

Posted: Thu - August 24, 2006 at 11:55 PM         |

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