Whoever was talking about "that stupid line about how we're all just bricks
in the wall" I think Martsch agrees with you. If you listen to the song,
it sounds like he's heaping some irony on some old cliches: dust in the
wind, bricks in the wall, you can't always get what you want, hard rain's
agonna fall, etc. Doug is way too smart to be rehashing metaphors for five
year olds without making some sly fun of them. I think its a sad, regretful
song which rocks out in all the right places. I didn't see them on Conan,
but I did see them at Slims and I had zero complaints.
Honestly I don't really understand all this bitching about Keep it like a
secret. I have all the albums, bought in the right order, and I have to
say, I just think they keep improving. The love album has some incredible
songs but isn't as solid all the way through as Perfect or Secret. This is
just one more person offering his opinion, but I'm just knocked off my feet
a little everytime I put any one of their albums on and I don't really give
a shit if they don't want to write songs longer than 6 minutes. Who said
songs have to be that long? I'll take my BTS short and sweet if that's the
way they want it. (the indie world could really do with more 3.5 minute pop
songs, if you ask me: keep us away from the neo-hippy Phish-esque jam on and
on bullshit).
