can I submit my nomination for 'song of the year'?
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aka, 'Despite being completely and utterly burnt out and floating by in a haze that barely resembles my former self, I still find it amazing that I can listen to this one particular song and take away from it sorrow, joy, and bewilderment.'From http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44665-the-stage-namesFittingly, The Stage Names ends with "John Allyn Smith Sails", a document of failure so complete that the main character can't even succeed in killing himself: "I was breaking in a case of suds at the Brass Rail, a fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out and his balls removed," Sheff sings, embodying doomed poet John Berryman (his birthname gives the song its title). "And I knew that my last lines were gone, while, stupidly, I lingered on." Berryman seems to be indie's new romantic failure-- he also inspired the Hold Steady's "Stuck Between Stations". Craig Finn had the Minneapolis connection; Okkervil River essentially rewrite the Beach Boys' "Sloop John B" as a suicide note, turning the song into a joke so grim it's hard not to laugh.
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