Hmmm. I'm discovering this way late -- maybe that's what happens when you live in CA -- and only because Eleanor does a wonderful short performance in the doc about Carmine St. Guitars. Clearly brilliant.
Somber end to a chaotic album. I'm not always in the mood to listen to 'Bitter Tea,' but then again, I'm not always in the mood to drink bitter tea. When I am though, it hits just right.
been a fan for a long time - this song in particular hits home so hard with its lyrics. I was was going to mention the line that fits me best of all, but as I listen to the lyrics, for the umpteenth time in the last 14 years, I realize that every line describes my life - except that I've never been smiled at by a bail bondsman. If I was forced to pick the one line that describes my inner-most being, it is "I thought of the ways that I've broke my own heart". I only have myself to blame. But I wouldn't have it any other way. I was born to be depressed and full of self hatred. I know of no other existence. I'd be lost if I were happy.
Eleanor really needs to write more up-tempo songs like Roosevelt Island and My Mistakes so she can keep making and selling records that can contain songs like this. She’s wonderful but only a relatively few will ever hear her if she continues making almost exclusively slow tempo reflective songs.
One of my boyfriend's favorite bands. I made him a Bitter Tea shirt one year. He struggled with Bipolar II Disorder for 13 years. He ended his life in March 2014. I listened to this song repeatedly that summer. Love & miss you so much, Bri.
She's thin as a stick. Very androgynous and has that Greek nose, and still, I accept, that if I had her as my GF, I wouldn't look at any other woman around.
This album had just come out and the first time I listened to it I was walking from my good ex's apartment in Brooklyn to Chinatown. This song came on when I was on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brought me to tears... ugly crying tears. I had a partner who had passed away and he always wanted to bring me to New York. He said I'd love it and not want to leave. Well... there I was with him on the bridge. This song is perfection.
I worked with delinquent kids from Benton Harbor in the 90's. I had a twelve-year-old who had a scar on his stomach from being shot already. Being in a gang was the cool thing to do back then and BH was a bad place to be.
Yeah I don't know if someone else hears it but the rhythm structure sounds like Femme Fatale, also could you suggest more songs of their that sounds like VU?
@@hasanabir115 well not this bands' but the song immediately reminded me of Heatwave by electro indie band Tungg And there's the guys of Ultimate Painting, song of the same name, or The Clean from NZ, "Anything could happen" or "point that thing somewhere else" , the Chills Pink Frost (ok, hardly VU, but can't omit if Clean is mentioned ;)
