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October 15th, 2021 1:42pm

Play With Your Pretty Mind


Common Saints “Fastlane”

The Eagles’ “Life in the Fast Lane” presents its characters as vapid horny assholes without any regard for anything besides satisfying their base urges, a lot of what makes the song work is that Don Henley sounds equally repulsed and impressed by them. Whereas that song examines this life from the outside, Common Saints’ “Fastlane” approaches it by getting into the mind of a self-destructive rogue and finding conflict and confusion where Henley would presume to find nothing but a void. “Fastlane” works within the template of Tame Impala-esque modern psychedelia but dials up the drama level so the whole song sounds like a car speeding through a cosmic tunnel towards some unseen but inevitable brick wall. And as the song zooms forwards, the lyrics pull deeper inward – down through despair, seeking an escape through zen self-acceptance.

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