marcellis
Senior Member
Father John Misty is the alter-ego of Josh Tillman.
This is one of the strangest records I've heard. But the songs are so damned beautiful.
And they lyrics are so damned corrosive and savage. I've never heard anything like it.
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"The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADV61C1zMA
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I guess it's like 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' or America's 'Holiday' album, blend with early Dylan's attack lyrics like 'Positively Fourth Street'.
I guess this guy is a total jerk. Like Jim Morrison, he insults his audience. And he had a strange upbringing.
But along with Imelda May's 'Love Tattoo', this is the most memorable album I've heard in at least a decade. And the songs are so beautiful.
I suspect folks will be listening to this for a long, long time.
Whole CD "I Love You Honeybear" Father John Misty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMfvhKIgBo
I don't know which song is my favorite. As the CD plays on, each song seems to be better than the previous one.
And they're all lovely except for 'Ideal Husband", which is a rocker.
"Bored in the USA" live on Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
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Lyrics: "When Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment"
Oh, I just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man
I mean like a g*d damn marching band
She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes
And the malaprops make me want to fu***** scream
I wonder if she even knows what that word means
Well, it's literally not that
Of the few main things I hate about her, one's her petty, vogue ideas
Someone's been told too many times they're beyond their years
By every half-wit of distinction she keeps around
And now every insufferable combo
Features her patiently explaining the cosmos
Of which she's in the middle
Oh my God, I swear this never happens
Lately, I can't stop the wheels from spinning
I feel so unconvincing
And I fumbled with the buttons
She blames her excess on my influence but gladly Hoovers all my drugs
I found her naked with her best friend in the tub
We sang "Silent Night" in three parts which was fun
Til she said that she sounds just like Sarah Vaughan
I hate that soulful affectation white girls put on
Why don't you move to the Delta?
I obliged later on when you begged me to choke ya
This is one of the strangest records I've heard. But the songs are so damned beautiful.
And they lyrics are so damned corrosive and savage. I've never heard anything like it.
--
"The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADV61C1zMA
--
I guess it's like 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' or America's 'Holiday' album, blend with early Dylan's attack lyrics like 'Positively Fourth Street'.
I guess this guy is a total jerk. Like Jim Morrison, he insults his audience. And he had a strange upbringing.
But along with Imelda May's 'Love Tattoo', this is the most memorable album I've heard in at least a decade. And the songs are so beautiful.
I suspect folks will be listening to this for a long, long time.
Whole CD "I Love You Honeybear" Father John Misty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMfvhKIgBo
I don't know which song is my favorite. As the CD plays on, each song seems to be better than the previous one.
And they're all lovely except for 'Ideal Husband", which is a rocker.
"Bored in the USA" live on Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg
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Lyrics: "When Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment"
Oh, I just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man
I mean like a g*d damn marching band
She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes
And the malaprops make me want to fu***** scream
I wonder if she even knows what that word means
Well, it's literally not that
Of the few main things I hate about her, one's her petty, vogue ideas
Someone's been told too many times they're beyond their years
By every half-wit of distinction she keeps around
And now every insufferable combo
Features her patiently explaining the cosmos
Of which she's in the middle
Oh my God, I swear this never happens
Lately, I can't stop the wheels from spinning
I feel so unconvincing
And I fumbled with the buttons
She blames her excess on my influence but gladly Hoovers all my drugs
I found her naked with her best friend in the tub
We sang "Silent Night" in three parts which was fun
Til she said that she sounds just like Sarah Vaughan
I hate that soulful affectation white girls put on
Why don't you move to the Delta?
I obliged later on when you begged me to choke ya
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