Harvey Danger - Radio Silence
Song Name: Radio Silence
Artist: Harvey Danger
Album: Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?
Why This Song?:
There are quite a few songs that get me really worked up. These songs don’t even have to be particularly heavy and/or crazy. Some songs like “Degausser” by Brand New and “Radio Silence” by Harvey Danger just get me so worked up I can barely contain myself. This results in friends giving me strange looks for convulsing wildly in the air, but the songs are just so good I could care less.
The last two minutes of Radio Silence do that for me. From the time I hear “just enough knowledge to know i don’t know anything, anything, anything, I don’t know, nobody likes what I like thats how I like it” to the closing cry of “it’s radioooo silence” don’t even bother talking to me because I won’t be listening. I’m fully engulfed in my song world. It’s not that the last two minutes contain any deep truth or compelling sounds. It’s pretty much just repeating “It’s radio silence.” But there is something about it that won’t let me stop listening and I would probably listen to the same thing over and over again even if it went on for another two minutes.
In “Radio Silence,” the beginning of the song is so solid and lyrically intriguing, even without Harvey Danger’s signature ironic, tongue-in-cheek, I’m so clever songwriting in the forefront, that it makes the bombast ending all the more electrifying.
I think the almost straight-forward lyrical approach actually adds to the song since the album is almost entirely drenched with witty one-liners and ironic anecdotes. At times Harvey Danger’s neverending sardonic statements can be overdone, so to have a little break from this is a bit refreshing.
Not to say that I don’t enjoy Harvey’s other work, as a matter of a fact, it is among some of my most listened to music, but this one tops my Harvey Danger collection. Most would probably go for “Flagpole Sitta” for pure catchy awesomeness, and it’s hard to disagree with them, but for me, this song is the bee’s knees. Yes, I just said bee’s knees. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.
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Great song!
Eliza on December 22nd, 2007 12:24 pm