🧨🎆Happy New Year, Nick, and happy maiden voyage on the SS Earnestness!🎇🥂
I know nothing about Belle & Sebastian's music (just knew they existed), but I'm fixated on why (whomever wrote it) was so taken by Mike Piazza? An avid baseball fan (and card and autograph collector in the '90s), I'm aware of Piazza's astounding role in baseball history: Drafted, like, #57, by the Dodgers by Mgr. Tommy Lasorda, solely as a favor to Mike's dad, and ends up in the Hall of Fame!
Curious song, true, even not knowing what B&S "normally" sound like! Well done, Nick....keep 'em comin'!
Having had the realization, during the last Tune Tag, that I'm drawn to songs with an element of uncertainty, this is a song in which _nothing_ is certain.
The digression about the catcher and pitcher has always stuck me as having an interesting emotional intensity. In terms of my analysis of the song, you would say the catcher personifies reliability and the pitcher the fears about whether he can actually commit to one thing, of if the other parts of his personality will make him unreliable -- but that's just how it fits in the structure of the song; not a guess about what he was thinking when he wrote it or sings it.
🧨🎆Happy New Year, Nick, and happy maiden voyage on the SS Earnestness!🎇🥂
I know nothing about Belle & Sebastian's music (just knew they existed), but I'm fixated on why (whomever wrote it) was so taken by Mike Piazza? An avid baseball fan (and card and autograph collector in the '90s), I'm aware of Piazza's astounding role in baseball history: Drafted, like, #57, by the Dodgers by Mgr. Tommy Lasorda, solely as a favor to Mike's dad, and ends up in the Hall of Fame!
Curious song, true, even not knowing what B&S "normally" sound like! Well done, Nick....keep 'em comin'!
I have no idea why Scottish musician Stuart Murdoch cares so much about the Mets (though I see he talked about it in this article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/belle-and-sebastians-stuart-murdoch-on-mike-piazza-his-favorite-hall-of-famer-70020/ ).
Having had the realization, during the last Tune Tag, that I'm drawn to songs with an element of uncertainty, this is a song in which _nothing_ is certain.
The digression about the catcher and pitcher has always stuck me as having an interesting emotional intensity. In terms of my analysis of the song, you would say the catcher personifies reliability and the pitcher the fears about whether he can actually commit to one thing, of if the other parts of his personality will make him unreliable -- but that's just how it fits in the structure of the song; not a guess about what he was thinking when he wrote it or sings it.