August 26th, 2009 8:34am
Best Friends Forever
The Da Vincis “Standing In Line”
“Standing In Line” is not a shockingly weird song, but there are enough unexpected bits in it for it certainly qualify as an unlikely oddity, particularly when you bear in mind that the band is a trio of high school seniors from Mississippi. The track begins with a guy crooning “I took a shower / I went to a movie last night / a woman approached me / and we became bff’s that night / best friends forever, that’s what we became that night” like a teenage Morrissey with a stuffy nose, and then it only gets more peculiar from there, with its farfisa lounge groove shifting into a series of darker tangents. The novelty does not entirely wear off, but as it becomes more familiar upon repeated listening, the internal logic of the band’s aesthetic decisions is more apparent, and it starts to seem more sensible than strange.
Buy it from Olympic Records.
8/27/09 7:51 am
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9/2/09 2:33 am
Great song. Never heard of them too.
9/13/09 11:41 pm
I like this one, too… First few times I listened to it, I kept thinking, yeah, but it’s too long: what’s with all the instrumental sections and weird talking? And while I think you probably could edit it down a bit, there are enough good parts in those apparently extraneous sections that the song would seem very different without them. And of course, that the song just keeps going when you think it’s over is part of its point, I take it. Not sure exactly how it is…but it is.