Music: Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on the Creek (acoustic) - Chiodos
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It has been a string of countless sms and finally a discussion over ym that prompted me to post this: JP’s take on Dashboard Confessional’s Stolen has put me on a Dashboard trip and therefore have to give this piece.
When I posted a url of a downloadable Stolen mp3 a few weeks back, JP has contested that it was the slow version and was looking for the fast one. Which fast one? I asked. I haven’t really heard any other versions, I told him. That sparked a Dashboard curiosity.
JP says according to Magic 89.9, the slow version was the album version, while there was a released radio edit about 1.5x faster which was also used on the video. Speculations were, the album version was meant to be pop, while the radio edit was meant to be emo.
Which I found to be contradicting. One, the album version, pop as it may seem, channeled more emotions, and were more touching than the radio edit. Radio edit seemed detached. Two, if making a pop version, why would you put that on the album, when radio airplay generates album sales?
Then again, I kinda found the answer to number one: I forgot how emo boys can be so detached and emotional at the same time. *laughs*
So I tried resucitating Danielle and listened to Dashboard Confessional tracks this afternoon. It seemed this is new for DC to release a slow pop version as everything is upbeat. Altho JP said there were also two versions of Hands Down, I don’t think it’s as pop as Stolen.
Hmm. Emo kicking in.
Try downloading these two and compare. See which one you connect to more:
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional mp3 Album Version [Download here ]
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional mp3 Radio Edit [ Download here ]
I asked JP what the lyrics was about. Sabi ko kasi it seemed like something like graduation. After all, where do you get a combination of ballroom parties, completed dreams, and hiatus after? Some people at a certain lyrics meanings site said it was all a part of the theme–that being Dashboard’s album title Dusk and Summer–making Stolen a sweep-me-off-my-feet summer fling. After all, they did sing about it in the first lines: “We watch the seasons pull up its own stakes, catch the last weekend, of the last week; Before the gold and the glimmer, have been replaced, we watch the sun soaked season fade away;”
But aren’t graduations meant to end at the start of summer? Malay mo naman it’s still connected.
Hmm. What do you think?
June 13th, 2007 at 3:43 am
On 2002s Summers Kiss EP and 2003s million-selling A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar, the singer started tinkering again with a full band sound, earning a hit with a electric-guitar reworking of his earlier song Hands Down and Vindicated. - http://www.purevolume.com/dashboardconfessional
I now I already shared this tidbit to you when I had an emo trip via HF’s resources one sullen night. So there, Hands Down and Vindicated were ACOUSTIC songs first before they became the hard rocking number we knew them to be.
To argue you, it’s not a new thing for DC to do two versions of their songs. Or at least some of them.
> I asked JP what the lyrics was about.
Oo nga no, I didn’t specifically answer this q of yours. I agree the lyrics has this graduation/prom setting to it.
> But aren’t graduations meant to end at the start of summer?
But don’t graduations occur just before summer kicks in regardless of academic calendar? Hmmm…
June 15th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Oo nga. I used the term “end” kasi relatively they mark the end of the school year. Hmm. Sad for them IS schools. They after all follow the american academic year and they go to Bora when raining.
Admittedly though, some of the lyrics DO pertain to summer. It’s just that some of them pertain to something grander, like a graduation nga.
July 4th, 2007 at 4:56 am
gud day!…just wanna ask kung meron ka nung acoustic version ng stolen?…the one from Y!Music live?…even that kind of version would be better…badly needed…hehe…cause my friend want that version badly..hehe..thanx and hope to hear from you!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:06 am
let me try and find one for you.
I’ll get back to you in a few.
July 9th, 2007 at 3:06 am
[…] This is per the request of Marlo. This is by far the most emotional of the ones I have downloaded. May isang acoustic, sobrang pangit. Grr. […]
July 24th, 2007 at 9:51 am
no more shall this be an issue…
I tried to play, now she has carefully weaved a web to entrap me in a horrendous cobweb of tangled emotions.