Day 686 - The Dismemberment Plan - Time Bomb

For those who don't know, I am listing my 10,000 favorite songs in this blog. This will take just under 30 years from start to completion. This blog can be found at Blogger, Livejournal for your convenience.

DAY 686
The Dismemberment Plan - Time Bomb
From "Change"
Year: 2001



From the Dismemberment Plan's final album. Released in 2001.

Travis Morrison was asked about this song in an interview, and this is what he had to say about it:

"Time Bomb" is almost a little cartoonish. It's almost pointedly an exercise in adolescence or self-pity. "I am a time bomb" -- you kind of want to slap someone who says something like that [laughs]. It does go beyond it, but if only because I think somewhere listeners understand it's a bit of an untrustworthy narrator. Somehow the song communicates that this person is not in a good place or a place you want to be. It's not a complete endorsement of adolescent resistance games. It's a very classically constructed smash-you-over-the-head-with-a-hook kind of thing. It's the only one on the record does that. That also may contribute to the sense of very specific craft, which may play into the idea of, this is a character. And I've only been that bitter a couple of times [laughs]!

Click here to watch the music video on YouTube

ROCK!

Glenn Case

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Here's my choices sorted by Artist, by album cover, and by year.