Watashi Wa - The Love Of Life
MP3 CBR 192 Kbps | Alternative Pop/Rock | 2003 | 65 MB

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If you're a pop music addict, sometimes you're bound to think
"This must be it. Surely all the great pop songs have been written
by now. There's only so much you can do with four chords and eight
notes, and we must be just about at the bottom of the barrel now."
Then a band like Watashi Wa comes along, and gives you twelve songs
that make you realize there's still more to do with those four
chords, and that maybe we won't ever run out of songs after all.
It's not that they break any boundaries or create any exciting new
fusions or really do anything particularly new at all. It's just
that they can take all the familiar elements that by all rights
ought to be completely worn out by now and make you excited to
hear them again. Combining the bizarro semantics ("You dream of
time like that to always stay/But no soon day would ever stay")
and the wide-eyed, heart-on-your-sleeve attitude of emo with most
of the tight, focused energy of power pop, Watashi Wa makes music
that it is almost impossible to listen to without grinning like a
fool and flapping your arms. Fill in the grammatical blanks (definite
articles, guys, you need more definite articles) and you'll find
lyrics that gleefully conflate romantic love and spiritual consecration
("With Love From Me to You,") or simultaneously confess both romantic
fear and an inability to dance ("Joanna"). Ignore the lyrics and you'll
be lifted effortlessly on waves of cathartic chord progressions that
the Smithereens would have shaved their goatees for. Apart from the
overly precious piano coda, there's not a weak track anywhere on this
album. And this is only their second album, folks.

Tracks
1 All of Me
2 At Its Finest
3 The Air I Breathe
4 With Love from Me to You
5 Smoke Signals
6 Joanna
7 Everything
8 Always Is a Place
9 How She Sees
10 Her Dress
11 Clear
12 Life Is Beautiful

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