Showing posts with label Track Obsession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Track Obsession. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Track Obsession: “Jesus Fever” by Kurt Vile

When I like a song, I really like it. Sometimes songs really lodge themselves into my head. I know there's no escaping the melody or interesting lyrics, and so I usually give up trying to shake the song and submerge myself. I listen to it day and night. I work out to it. I walk my dog to it. I do the dishes while it pipes out of my iPod. In short: I get obsessed. Isn’t there just something completely overpowering about a perfect song? You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the type of song that makes you want to run as fast as you can for no reason. It's not too long, not too short, a perfect hook, chorus, etc. You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not a musician, and Chris is really better suited to this kind of thing. I’m just a guy who sometimes freaks out over a song. And right now I’m freaking out over the song “Jesus Fever” off of Kurt Vile’s new album Smoke Ring For My Halo.

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