This year, I'm back to doing a song that makes me think of her, and not necessarily a song that she necessarily likes. "I Love Her All the Time" is an excellent song from Sonic Youth's often overlooked 1985 sophomore LP, "Bad Moon Rising". It's a tour-de-force of the loud-soft-loud formula, with long periods of discordant chaos, followed by slow progression into tender movements, and then back again. And although "manic pixie dream girl" has slightly negative connotations, the song captures the essence of Danette's (partial & positive) MPDG role, as in "wonder" and "awe", relative to me.
As much as Kim Gordon is the epitome of cool, I actually enjoy Thurston Moore on lead vocals slightly more. His conventional, almost soothing but still detached, vocal approach is a pleasing contrast to the guitar cacophony that he accompanies.
She comes into my mind
Twisting through my nerves
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
"I Love Her All the Time": studio version, from "Live in Brooklyn 2011"
Previous birthday songs:
2022: Plastic Bertrand - "Ça plane pour moi"
2021: Adam and the Ants - "Christian D'or"
2020: Walk Off The Earth - "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"
2019: Nicki Minaj - "Monster"
2018: Bear Hands - "Giants"
2017: Alvvays - "Archie, Marry Me"
2016: Molly Hatchet - "Flirtin' With Disaster"
2015: Avett Brothers - "Kick Drum Heart"
2014: Ani DiFranco - "32 Flavors"
2013: The Green Pajamas - "Kim the Waitress"
2012: The Cure - "High"
2011: Blink 182 - "Josie"
2010: Dead Milkmen - "Punk Rock Girl"
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