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I hate television. But I still watch it, because very occasionally it suprises me. Last night I was channel flipping in disgust at 4 am, and ran across the video for the new song “I will possess your heart” by the band Death Cab for Cutie. View the video here.

I know this band is huge, and you probably think I’m the last person in the world to discover them. But I’ve heard this band before, and didn’t love them. Way too poppy for me. But this one song blew me away. And I usually hate rock video (it’s too “advertising based”). But I entirely loved the feeling of isolation and beauty in this one. Shows the band playing in a freezer room, interspliced with a young woman traveling the world alone. As DJ put it, “She’s seeing these places, but she’s not really seeing them.” The song is amazing…sort of Joy Division meets Bomb meets the music I’d want played at my funeral (if I wanted a funeral, which I don’t).

I even love the title of the song…it’s a sentiment that would be creepy in the maw of some singers, but works with this one. Interestingly, I read an interview with the singer after seeing the video, where he said it was about a stalker’s obsession with an unrequited love. I didn’t get that thought at all. But I guess I’m at an age where nothing ever enters my mind about wanting to have anyone anywhere near my life who doesn’t want me there. I took it as the singer and the girl knew each other, and were spending some time together. Didn’t have a thought of “will they meet again”? though I did like that the avoided the rock video cliche of having them meet in some capacity at the end.

I could do without the middle-eight in this song, but it’s short enough not to distract. (God I hate three-act format, in film, AND in music.)

It’s a truly stunning song, stunning video….I just gaped my eyes open. Listening to it now. You should be too.

This entry was posted by Michael W. Dean on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 10:50 pm and is filed under Other people's cool stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.