Long Stem
Long Stem was my favorite song of the whole DJ Shadow album. When I first started listing to the album I did not know what to make of it. Most of the songs seemed to be ones that one would listen to while on some type of psychedelic drug. I was almost ready to go and buy some mushrooms so I could continue listening to the rest of the album.
Then Long Stem rose came on. This was a song that I could listen to. There are very little lyrics which made it all the better. The song is a long one, hence the title Long Stem. It put me in a nice tranquil place where I could relax. The beginning seems to be a very long intro but in fact it’s the actual song. I felt like I was watching a movie in the 70’s and something was about to happen. I’m not sure where DJ Shadow found the beat to this but it would make for a great song. There are two spurts of random lyrics
Then go, Back, Head, There, Decide....
I think he wants us all to stop and listen and decide. We might be in the middle of making a decision we should just go back and decide. This verse can be used in many different ways it just depends on who is listening and what they are going through at that particular point in their life.
I say parking tickets! you're crazy, i don't...
He says well, they have some outstanding warrents left on you
and they want to just solve them you know, whatever it'll be.
So they take me in on a chain down to long beach
and now they lock me up in the cell behind the courtroom in long beach
while i'm awaiting to be heard on my traffic offences! parking tickets!
I paniced, i'm thinking, oh my god, man, while i'm here, what's to stop them?
I mean what's really to stop them, oh, i assumed that maybe some day
my mother would realize that i should have gotten out! yeah,
she was nice, she would have known but still, what's to stop them?
and finally they called, so, they called, oh, man....scared
This lyric that he put in towards the end of the song really makes you think. He put it towards the end for a reason. I feel that it’s to make you again make a decision. The person in question is talking about being taken to jail on some parking tickets. Why didn’t he just take care of the tickets so he could avoid the whole scenario? That’s what DJ shadow wanted to get across. Why don’t we take care of small things before they become big issues in our lives.
I liked how you mention the fact that when you started hearing DJ shadows album you thought about how you had to be on some sort of drug in order for you to make out the album because thats how I felt too. At first I did not know what to make out of the album since I have never heard of Dj Shadow in the first place but in the end I really enjoyed his work. I also agree with you when you analized of what DJ shadow is trying to get across. I think the majority of people do in fact leave smaller problems slide and therefore it becomes a bigger problem in the long run.
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