What I like about this song is that it's not JUST a reverse love song about finding the perfect archenemy; it's specifically an UNREQUITED reverse love song about finding the perfect nemesis but you don't even register as a recurring threat to them
Another reason I really love this, besides the great music: John being on the Ipod on the stand makes it really seem like you two are rivals making this song with your not-so-real hatred for each other.
Every time I get into a JoCo mood and start listening to his collection. There is always one that stands out as totally awesome, well written, well played and crafted, well sung masterpiece. And it’s different each time because he has so many. I’ve listened to this song about 20 times in the last few days. Still Amazing.
True foreseeing since this was way before the pandemic.´ I found this far too late, but it is a little masterpiece. Why does JoCo always know which voice suits best to his songs and garnishes it with Beatles bowing chord progressions plus lyrics at a really fine level?
It's a John-spiracy. Next thing you know, Johnathan Coultan, John Roderick, Johns Flansburgh and Linnel, and John Hodgman will be in a room together sipping whiskey or cider or daquiris or whatever it is that Johns drink, reclining in velvet chairs and nursing bubble pipes.
I've heard/watched this song a bunch of times and I JUST noticed what JoCo is doing with his backing vocals...so cool! It's all...minor key ish? Very interesting
i feel like this is one of those songs that i will like because initially it doesn't make an impression on me, but then i find myself humming it in the store, but i don't know the lyrics, and then i HAVE to look it up, and then it gets stuck in my head for a week until i hate it. then in six months i rekindle my love for it, but keep it at an arms distance, enjoying it in mix CDs, fearing the intimacy will break my heart a second time.
This song was one of the ones I kind of glossed over when I was listening to the album, but after I listened to the whole album a few times through, I started to really notice just how good it is. Now it's one of the tracks that I listen to the most from the album.
This song was the first I'd heard from the album, and likely the reason I fell in love with it. Artificial Heart is one of my favorite albums of all time. Got the vinyl coming in the mail.
I didn't know much about this guy but when I looked him up after getting into JoCo it completely caught me off guard. I expected a half empty stub of a page and instead first thing I said after reading it was "He was the bean dad guy?"
I hope he's able to move forward. The bean dad stuff was.. stupid and petty but not career shattering I'd think. This is one of my favourite JoCo songs too, plus he's the theme to hundreds of MBMBAM episodes (though Montaigne knocked it out of the park with their new one).
So I can actually hear Jonathan's voice in this one (unlike the recording for the album assuming he sung there as well) it makes me wonder what this song would be like if it was just JoCo singing. That said I love it to pieces the way it is.
Love this song. Captures me and my girlfriends relationship perfectly. We were both super competitive in highschool and always competed very intensely with each other. We also got on each other's nerves a lot. And somehow, we fell in love? Kinda wild. Love this song
Deconstructing things is wonderful and important! It's actually a hobby of mine, despite still being in high school (can't decide if a degree in Sociology/Social Anthropology will make me more or less prone to deconstruction...
Beautiful. I've been singing this song constantly since it came out (that is, in that preview some site featured long before Artificial Heart was even released :D)
I wonder how they got such a tight recording with his vocals from a phone. Wouldn't there be latency issues? Great song, these guys should collaborate more.
I love this song! I got a chance to see them perform it in Boston last June. I love the video, too! John F did an amazing job on the whole Artificial Heart album!
