I only discovered this song a week ago. I was sitting in a cafe in Esperance, Western Australia and this video was playing on a screen on the wall behind my friend. The title, tune, and video all grabbed my attention and hit me deeply. Had my friend and I sat the other way around, I never would have noticed this video playing. Magic moments like this make me happy.
What a heartbreakingly beautiful song. Both Callahan's vocals and the instrumental express, simultaneously, a sort of nostalgic pain and an attempt to overcome trauma - but living on, as the mother of the world, putting the past behind but still letting it inevitably linger.
precioso!!! i love Smog...much! i love tis song much! and this video is great! Thank you so much for feeling like the mother of this world in this way... so much love to bring, to this world, much to care, much to nurture, much to love, much to forgive... thank you
One thing I find very interesting about Bill is that he can make a really beautiful, knock-out instrumental that could genuinely be a massive hit song, but then the way he sings over it has so many peculiar phrasings or odd timings. Initially this annoyed me, I felt like he was ruining his own music, but now I see that he is fully aware of the way one would "expect" the song to go and instead chooses to eschew that for a more interesting and longer lasting impact (if he went full pop you could possibly chew the song up and spit it out after a few listens, his weirdness makes you return). This song is a great example of that, it could have easily been a straight-forward structured pop rock song but it's not, and arguably all the better for it.
"Wednesday 21 November 2012 A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been agreed to end eight days of violence that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis."
Saw Bill in Melbourne in early 2020… one of my favourite concerts ever.
I only discovered this song a week ago. I was sitting in a cafe in Esperance, Western Australia and this video was playing on a screen on the wall behind my friend. The title, tune, and video all grabbed my attention and hit me deeply. Had my friend and I sat the other way around, I never would have noticed this video playing. Magic moments like this make me happy.
how can a song be both so joyous and so devastating ??
this song is healing me but it also is cutting very deep
:/
theres a certain finality to this song that makes me want to break down and cry
I cried
Bill Callahan is among the greatest American song writers
Bee Cee = Bill Callahan 🤨
What a heartbreakingly beautiful song. Both Callahan's vocals and the instrumental express, simultaneously, a sort of nostalgic pain and an attempt to overcome trauma - but living on, as the mother of the world, putting the past behind but still letting it inevitably linger.
Listening to this while housekeeping
Still the best music video ever.
got damit this song/vid hits straight to the heart every. single. time.
The song. The video. Chloë. Such a beautiful coming together of everything.
That opening, just never gets old. 😭😭
Great song and young Chloe! Amazing.
One of my favorite Smog songs. Bill is a great artist.
That was honest to god an amazing music video.
Beatiful song
it does not matter does not matter stop fighting
A fantastic song. Can't stop listening to Bill..!
i’m gonna remember this
Fires on TV...
Its the heat Bill!
I never considered that to be a very sad song on the album, but Oh, do I do now
Maid with Wound
as usual very uplifting...
precioso!!! i love Smog...much! i love tis song much! and this video is great! Thank you so much for feeling like the mother of this world in this way... so much love to bring, to this world, much to care, much to nurture, much to love, much to forgive... thank you
Bill Callahan... Ace
lovely
One thing I find very interesting about Bill is that he can make a really beautiful, knock-out instrumental that could genuinely be a massive hit song, but then the way he sings over it has so many peculiar phrasings or odd timings. Initially this annoyed me, I felt like he was ruining his own music, but now I see that he is fully aware of the way one would "expect" the song to go and instead chooses to eschew that for a more interesting and longer lasting impact (if he went full pop you could possibly chew the song up and spit it out after a few listens, his weirdness makes you return).
This song is a great example of that, it could have easily been a straight-forward structured pop rock song but it's not, and arguably all the better for it.
I think it makes the song so much more impactful, I can almost imagine bill singing it.
This is amazing 😍
beautiful
i love this
ineffable profundity...more relevant now than ever...
Young Chloë Sevigny
He's a beefcake.
Poignant and spot on. Who's le actress? Fucking love smog, this video's good on so many levels
Chloë Sevigny. Poignant is the word alright.
Movie name?
It's not a movie. It's the video for this song.
Just stop fighting
What? My wifey is in an old Smog music video!
chloe
"Wednesday 21 November 2012
A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been agreed to end eight days of violence that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis."
Insanely relevant it’s scary
Whether or not there is any type of god
I'm not supposed to say
And today
I don't really care
God is a word
And the argument ends there
will we ever learn
No cesefire and some humans question if the displacement and attack, the cutting of water, electricity, fuel, hospitals and culture is a genocide
10/10
January 6th, 2021: The US Capitol is stormed, and I'm back here again.
*THERE ARE GONNA BE GUNSHOTS*
Is that the chick from American psycho?
Chloe, she knows how to hold a tune, I saw her once holding Vincent Gallo’s tune very well.