The Postal Service — Recycled Air
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Length: 4:24
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I take a breath
Hold the air until there's nothing left
I'm feeling green
Like teenage lovers between the sheets
ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba ba
Knuckles clenched to white
As the landing gear detracts for flight
My head's a balloon
Inflating with the altitude
ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba ba (x3)
I watch the patchwork farms
Slowly fade into the ocean's arms
And from here they can't see me stare
The stale taste of recycled air
I watch the patchwork farms
Slowly fade into the ocean's arms
And calm down, release your care
The stale taste of recycled air
Hold the air until there's nothing left
I'm feeling green
Like teenage lovers between the sheets
ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba ba
Knuckles clenched to white
As the landing gear detracts for flight
My head's a balloon
Inflating with the altitude
ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba-ba-ba ba ba ba (x3)
I watch the patchwork farms
Slowly fade into the ocean's arms
And from here they can't see me stare
The stale taste of recycled air
I watch the patchwork farms
Slowly fade into the ocean's arms
And calm down, release your care
The stale taste of recycled air
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please please please stop 
Actually dropped it a point on a second listen. Wildness.
Pretty tedious.
Yawn
Blimey, I didn't think this tune could possibly get people so impassioned! Thought it was quite nice myself in a backgroundy sorta way. Won't be running out to buy it but won't be hunting them down either...
Odyzzeuz wrote:
..or maybe someone just enjoys sputtering incoherent criticism.
Anyhow, I'd give this song a 7. An enjoyable band overall imo.
I'm getting sick of bands like Cake, The Postal Service, Soul Coughing, Radiohead and a host of others that sport this simpering boy band sound. Cringe-worthy. It's this poppy, lite, bouncy boy-voiced sound with a tired, prematurely weary edge that strikes me as monstrously self-absorbed.
*steps down from soapbox*
On the other hand, it's all good. They're not loading anyone into cattle cars.
A bit contradictory there.. simpering sound is not the first, or last for that matter, thing I would associate with a boy band. Is this song poppy? maybe; light? sure; bouncy? umm not really. Prematurely weary?.. as in they should wait a bit longer before they express any sort of weariness? And I thought they were poppy and bouncy, and now they are weary and self-absorbed.. monstrously self-absorbed mind you.
*shrugs* ..or maybe someone just enjoys sputtering incoherent criticism.
Anyhow, I'd give this song a 7. An enjoyable band overall imo.
it sounds like Death Cab...oh wait...same dude.
Well, at least I know I'm not losing my mind. ;-)
davin wrote:
this is good.
No its not. That electronic off beat is kind of annoying.
this is good.
bokey wrote:
Maybe there's a song in there amongst the electronic interference.
That kind of a bias against a genre doesn't help anyone. I may not like, say, reggae very much, but I don't accuse it of not being music, and I give each individual song a chance to stand on its own merits.
Maybe there's a song in there amongst the electronic interference.
Odyzzeuz wrote:
I'm getting sick of bands like Cake, The Postal Service, Soul Coughing, Radiohead and a host of others that sport this simpering boy band sound. Cringe-worthy. It's this poppy, lite, bouncy boy-voiced sound with a tired, prematurely weary edge that strikes me as monstrously self-absorbed.
*steps down from soapbox*
On the other hand, it's all good. They're not loading anyone into cattle cars.
That's funny. You should listen to King Missle.
Odyzzeuz wrote:
I'm getting sick of bands like Cake, The Postal Service, Soul Coughing, Radiohead and a host of others that sport this simpering boy band sound. Cringe-worthy. It's this poppy, lite, bouncy boy-voiced sound with a tired, prematurely weary edge that strikes me as monstrously self-absorbed.
*steps down from soapbox*
On the other hand, it's all good. They're not loading anyone into cattle cars.
Deep thinkers down there in Texas eh?
i like it!
This is boy band?
WTF?
N-Sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees = boy bands.
This is soothing indie rock. :)
If Cake and Soul Coughing are boy bands then this must be Bizarro World.
Bizarro hate Cake!
I'm getting sick of bands like Cake, The Postal Service, Soul Coughing, Radiohead and a host of others that sport this simpering boy band sound. Cringe-worthy. It's this poppy, lite, bouncy boy-voiced sound with a tired, prematurely weary edge that strikes me as monstrously self-absorbed.
*steps down from soapbox*
On the other hand, it's all good. They're not loading anyone into cattle cars.
This song isn't getting much positive feedback due to those "ping pong" effects. I certainly don't mind them. In fact, like Radiohead's, The Bends, I can put this CD in and listen to the whole thing without "looking forward to that one song". Just a great CD all around!!
winter wrote:
I could really do without the pong sounds. "BIP BIP BIP" - what's up with that? An excess of nostalgia for a now-obscure but once pioneering video game?
What he said. God, I would love this song if not for those annoying bips. Something similar ruined Alan Parsons Project remake of a wonderful instrumental -- Mammagamma from 82. They remade it last year and ruined it with similar sound effects.
What are they THINKING when the ruin good songs with that noise?
I might enjoy this song more if I didn't have the hacking plague from my last airplane ride...
I could really do without the pong sounds. "BIP BIP BIP" - what's up with that? An excess of nostalgia for a now-obscure but once pioneering video game?
Thank Bill for the LRC.
not for me
KevDogRedux wrote:
We must really be at a crisis in band names if someone was forced to name their group "Postal Service."
Check out all the trouble they got into with it. Lawsuits/deals....
this whole CD is great, but my favorite track is "Clark Gable"
8)
KevDogRedux wrote:
We must really be at a crisis in band names if someone was forced to name their group "Postal Service."
I think it's actually quite a fitting name, if you know the story. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (Seattle) and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel (LA) collaborated on this side project almost entirely through the mail.
Soporific, as usual.
We must really be at a crisis in band names if someone was forced to name their group "Postal Service."
even all of you DCfC and Postal Service haters might give this one a pass. I think it's great - probably the best track on the disc.
Post edit: there are now 6 ratings and one of them is a "2". Apparently I was wrong.
This is possibly the most ridiculous music criticism I've ever seen here. You've managed to choose four bands that sound nothing alike, and then lump them all into the same dismissive bucket. Bravo, I salute you.