kierstenmh:

As I was about to pack up my mic for Minnesota, I knew I needed to do one thing. This song has meant a lot to me since high school. I listened to it repeatedly before going to college in Seattle. I can still perfectly relate to the lyrics.

I had to play it.

World at Large (cover)- Modest Mouse

SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

Cells, by The Servant

Some of you will recognize the guitar hook on this from the Sin City trailer. It was one of those trailers where your first thought was OMG LET’S GO SEE THIS MOVIE and thought #2 was HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT MUSIC?

So I tracked it down, and got the mp3. Then I had to track down the instrumental version, because that’s the one that Rodriguez actually used for the trailer. Because the original version of the song has lyrics, and those lyrics are why nobody had heard of the song until this trailer. BECAUSE THE LYRICS ARE HORRIBLE. OMG.

Songs like this are like Coldplay songs; the instrumentation is fantastic, but the lyrics can absolutely ruin it. The one thing Chris Martin has going for him is that—if you listen to his voice as another instrument conveying mood and not as a source of words conveying some meaning—he’s a really good singer, and his pitch/tone/singing style match the otherwise flawless instrumentation of a good Coldplay song. It is, in fact, the utter art-school pretentiousness of Chris Martin’s lyrics (his poetry, if you want to call it that) that makes me wish he was singing in another language.

This line of thought led me to my totes brills BILLION DOLLAR IDEA, which is that Coldplay needs to record a series of french-language albums. SRSLY I WOULD BUY THEM ALL.