I've just listened to the Anthropocene Reviewed and I'm in literal tears. No one has ever put in words his love to a piece of music so accurately and purely as John did.
I am twenty-seven. I am moving into the basement of my husband's family home. For the first time I feel like I am running toward something rather than away. I enjoy the sunbeams streaming through the large windows. I am reading and I am hearing New Partner for the first time. My sister-in-law has gone into labor. The day is bright and calm as I await the birth of my niece.
I’m 21. for the past year I’ve been homeless across Colorado and Wisconsin I finally made the decision to reconcile my relationship with my family and moved back to Louisiana it’s not been easy the day after my 21st I passed out due to bradycardia and the week after that I got into a fight with my father and was arrested for simple battery and spent Memorial Day weekend in jail, though it’s been a rough ride things are starting to look up we don’t always see eye to eye on everything and it’s gonna take time but we’re rebuilding and I’m hopeful to have a good strong relationship with them. Through this experience I’ve learned that I’ve been running from myself and it’s time I roll with the punches and take what this life has given to me it’s not anyone else’s experience it’s mine and sometimes I feel despondent and angry at the life I have but not tonight not right now, right now I’m filled with hope for the future and an abundance of joy and I’m sitting on a new couch in my childhood living room listening to music in my earbuds while my family is asleep I have a feeling I haven’t felt in a very long time. I hope my comment finds you well and that you and your husband are having the time of your lives! Much love from Louisiana!
all these comments are from 2 years ago so i guess john recommended it then, but i'm here from today's anthro reviewed, and i definitely cried listening to it, as i usually do. a good song, i rate it 4 stars.
Jay Dot me, listening to The anthropocene reviewed at the train station, fully sobbing, starting to get weird looks: so i uhhh hhh guess i should listen to this song huh
@@omarabdelkadereldarir7458 apparently I listened to this song back when the podcast came out - there are liked comments here that I don't remember ever seeing before, nor do I remember hearing this song - but the book brought me here today.
There's a black tinted sunset with the prettiest of skies Lay back, lay back, rest your head on my thighs There is some awful action that just breathes from my hand Just breaths from a deed so exquisetly grand You are always on my mind x4 Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here Its some special action with motives unclear Now you'll haunt me, Till I've paid for what I've done It's a payment which precludes the having of fun And you are always on mind x4 But hello, I've got a new partner riding with me Yes I'v got a new partner now. Now the sun's fading faster, we're ready to go There's a skirt in the bedroom that's pleasantly low And the loons on the moor, the fish in the flow And my friends they still whisper hello We all know what we know, it's a hard swath to mow When you think like a hermit you forget what you know And you are always on my mind x4 I've got a new partner, riding with me x3 Yes I've got a new partner now
This is Bonnie Will's best record. I can't think of another that's really that close. If I'm in the mood for for Palace music, this is the one I'll reach for every time!
Every Time I talk to you, there's something stopping you from being mine, every 6 months or so you or I start a conversation to find out if there's a possibility of an us, but its always 2000 Miles, or work, or family, or whether you or me I have a new partner of our own. You are always on my mind. Your the one and I know it in my heart. One day our paths will cross at a time that's convenient for the both of us. Until then and forever after, I love you.
Most people are here from (from what I can gather), Hank Green mentioning this song in a very old Vlogbrothers vid, John Green mentioning it in a slightly more recent vlogbrothers vid, or the Anthropocene Reviewed podcast, which is by John Green. Nerdfighters I believe this is our new anthem (aside from stuff by They Might Be Giants, and Hank’s music)
The Anthropocene Reviewed was my first John Green book. I followed it with The Fault in Our Stars, he just couldn't help but include this song in there too so I had to give it a listen. I guess this is what the Hectic Glow sounds like.
Thank you John for speaking so beautifully about this song. Thank you Will Oldham for writing and performing it beautifully. Hello all the listeners enjoying this for the first or 50th time. DFTBA!
@ I mean like... don't be upset that a bunch of people, through the sheer luck of knowing the same guy who "likes actual music" and has loved this song for 20 years, get the joyous privilege of discovering and enjoying this beautiful song and talented artist for the first time? Oh no, the song isn't dead and in a museum and new people like the thing you like?
In the process of Anthropocene Reviewed... John and I have a LOT of strange overlaps. THIS is NOT one of them! But, I can appreciate the dynamic of vulnerable nostalgia with a bittersweet tone. Like STP, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana for me... in an objective sense, the music is NOT good, but for the time I was in when I was awed by it, it's pricelessly good! And, like the book as a whole, music has this way of reaquainting ourselves (today) with ourselves (yesteryear)! And, like his book, which encapsulates 2020 - which we are ALL well passed - anything that can resonate across the worlds we've fallen through is beautiful. This song is great (or awful) for a variety of reasons, but the most important reason it's great for me is because of the overlap John Green and I - someone whom he most likely will NEVER meet - share. I give this overlap five stars.
i listened to this song obsessively when i was with my last partner. i showed him it and we both listened to it and thought of each other as being always on each other's minds and it made me sickeningly happy... but it seems i was the only one who really thought of him in that way. long story short, he only ever loved the idea of me and never actually loved me. he broke my heart and this song is tragically extremely difficult for me to listen to now. it came on once when i was driving and i started sobbing immediately, as the song's meaning has clearly changed for me. it's become about the struggle of moving on and of being haunted by someone you were not ready to lose. yesterday, i went to a record store in the middle of nowhere and i pored through a haphazardly stacked pile of cds, somehow stumbling upon a perfect untouched copy of viva last blues. i grabbed it immediately, despite the fact that i'm not sure if i will ever really be able to listen to this incredible song in a positive manner again, but i don't know. i definitely read too much into things as being "signs" but it felt like the right thing to do to buy it. there were no other will oldham works and this was the only copy of the album there. it felt like something i had to do and i am not sure why, but here we are. i've read through some of the comments and funnily enough, a love of the Green brothers was something else that connected me and said ex-partner. i had no idea this song had any connotation with john, so maybe i will go see what he said about it. regardless, this song is powerful and incredibly special, even if it hurts to listen to.
One of my very favorites of his...a different inflection of "you were always on my mind" makes it his. There's a black tinted sunset with the prettiest of skies Lay back,lay back, rest your head on my thighs There is some awful action that just breathes from my hand Just breaths from a deed so exquisetly grand And you are always on my mind x4 Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here Its some special action with motives unclear Now you'll haunt me, you'll haunt me Till I've paid for what I've done It's a payment which precludes the having of fun And you are always on mind x4 But hello, I've got a new partner riding with me I'v got a new partner, hello Now the sun's fading faster, we're ready to go There's a skirt in the bedroom that's pleasantly low And the loons on the moor, the fish in the flow And my friends, my friends still will whisper hello We all know what we know, it's a hard swath to mow When you think like a hermit you forget what you know And you are always on my mind x4 I've got a new partner, riding with me x3 I've got a new partner now
John Green sent me. In recent months I've had several people recommend Will Oldham and they are all around my age which brings up the question - how did I NEVER hear this guy when I was growing up?
Well, Hank Green mentioned your song in a video. He and his brother created a community called Nerdfighters. It's a pretty old video, though. Not that many people remember it.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/episodes/anthropocene-reviewed-hall-presidents-and-new-partner The part about new partner is the second part of the episode, but I recommend you listen to all of it since it usually ties together really well and it's only 20 mins in total. You can also find it in his brand new book.
@ uhhh look at some other comments, they have answers. short answer: john green. he's an author, and makes videos on his channel with his brother hank. he rec'd this song a few years ago and again last week (march 28) on one of his podcasts where he reviewed this song (he gave it 4/5 stars). also, i understand we, the nerdfighters who keep talking about john, are invading this song and space with vague references to a man named john but this is the internet, people can do this, and people can recommend things and more people can thank those ones. so maybe you could ask who john is in a nicer way, please?
This is playing over a Montage of people exploring somewhere. I don't know what they're exploring, a city or a supermarket but I can see quirky physical comedy to accompany the cute stuff. Ends holding hands?
ooulipo John Green of the RU-vid channels vlogbrothers, mental floss, crash course, and hankgames. Also author of young adult novels like The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. Music recommendations are but a small niche of what he does.
@HerrNilssonTheMonkey "like" started in like the 80's genius ever thought maybe your generation is just reliving the past? if you think at all trash talking random on the internet LULZ
