Music Monday (on Tuesday)

Sorry or no Music Monday post yesterday.  Here's a peace offering.

My wife and I watched The Last Kiss a few days back, starring Zach Braff.  I thought Garden State was brilliant and he was involved at all levels on that film.  Braff's only role in TLK, as far as I can tell, is his acting role.  He was good, but the story wasn't appealing to me.  Even though, Braff in more serious roles is a million times better than Braff in Scrubs.  That show just isn't funny to me. 

When Braff is in a movie you can usually find good music therein.  Who can argue with the amazing Garden State Soundtrack?  It appears The Last Kiss Soundtrack (Amos Lee, Ray LaMontagne, Athlete, Snow Patrol, etc) is also very good, though the music didn't seem as forward as it was in Garden State.

One song has haunted me.  It's Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek."  I'm not much of a Heap fan, but this song may convert me.

Here's the video and lyrics (via) of the song.  Enjoy.  (Also see Live at Indie 103.1)

Where are we? What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to form,
Crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling.
Spin me round again and rub my eyes.
This can't be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy.

Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines.
All those years they were here first.

Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before.
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this
still life.

Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines. (Oh, you won't catch me around here)
Blood and tears,
They were here first.

Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's all for the best? Ah of course it is.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's just what we need? And you decided this.
Mmm what you say?
What did she say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I dont believe you.
You don't care a bit. You don't care a bit.

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I don't believe you.
You don't care a bit. You don't care a bit.

You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.
You don't care a bit.

Comments

[jason allen]

that is a great sound track and I agree Hide and Seek is great. When I heard that song in August or September it was my intro into Heap's music. Good stuff. thanks for the post.

Great to hear about the car too!

[Rich]

Great Heap song. It's interesting to mention it has also been used A LOT on TV from CSI to the OC. As a Garden State fan you'll remember a song on that soundtrack by Frou Frou, her band.

[Steve McCoy]

True, she is everywhere right now. I just never connected to the music, even on Garden State. "Let Go" was a good song for the soundtrack and worked well in the movie, but I never went out of my way to listen to it.

And if they ever choose to use her stuff on The Office or 24, I'll probably like her more! ;)

[Robert]

I have to agree about Heap. I liked "Let Go" and thought it worked well in the movie, but would skip it more than I would skip say the Shins.

You should watch more Scrubs. For the longest time I did not see why people enjoyed that show so much. To me it wasn't funny and many episodes were mildly confusing. However, I started watching and now enjoy it.

[Gregory Pittman]

The first time I heard Imogen Heap was at a movie several months ago. My wife and brother-in-law and I were pretty early for the movie and "Hide and Seek" played in the theater. The announcer mentioned what the song was and who the artist was. I was mesmerized by the song and when I went to look for it in iTunes and elsewhere, it took me a while because I kept looking for a band named Image in Heat. Fortunately, Google was smarter than I was that day because a search for Image in Heat returned, "Did you mean Imogen Heap?"

Why, yes I did, thank you.