New Decemberists - "Little Boxes" (Theme To Weeds)
Last night Weeds welcomed Matthew Modine to the cast! How ... not as exciting as the creators think. And to usher in Matthew's stint as the smarmy, township-of-Majestic rep guy, "Little Boxes" was Donovan-ized! So okay, none of your heart beats are pulsing any faster with that double shot, but maybe a trip over to the show's site right about now will help: The Decemberists' version of Malvina's tune is up for streaming, and it's cool! Finally, a sincere exclamation point. The cut starts reverently enough, but a minor key modulation takes things into more anxious, bad-high territory. Chris Funk explains...
Just watching this show makes me nervous. Whenever I smoke the stuff I end up being that guy at the party that should have really just left the scene. You know; the fool so stoned that [he] becomes cemented to the cat pee smelling cracked pleather chair in the corner who’s creeping everyone out because he won’t talk to anyone and he won’t move for nothing.Listen and love at homegrownseries.com. (Thanks, Yiyo) And who honestly believes the show isn't losing something with each ep? The kids know (and now Silas is dealing!), U-Turn's sidekick is a bit too loveable and soft-hearted, Andy's in the army now, etc. The first two seasons' story arc were Emmy-worthy, but now the show's plot/identity-crises is slowly making it as indistinguishable as those little boxes Malvina's going on about. Snap.So in doing this song, we thought it would be appropriate to have the chord progression shift to a minor key, suggesting a bit of tension and more directly, a darker tone. The song really isn’t that cheery when you dig a little deeper and get past that sweet voice and melody, in reality quite depressing…ah life.
Posted at 6:25 PM
Tags: Chris Funk | The Decemberists | Weeds
Best version of it I've heard so far. I like it. A lot.
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must... have... mp3...
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This is without a doubt the best version of the song I have ever heard. Leave it to the Decemberists to make Little Boxes sexy.
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we're four episodes into Weeds third season. it's been depressing so far, but there can't be light without the dark... or something like that. i think the rest of the season will get lighter. it has mary-kate olsen, or maybe ashley, in it for god's sake!
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"Last night Weeds welcomed Matthew Modine to the cast!"
What welcomed who?
It's not merely that I don't give a rat's ass. It's like listening to somebody with a crippling speech impediment explaining Zoroastrian theology in Sanskrit: There are multiple levels of not-giving-a-shit piled on too-boring-to-try here.
But I'm pretty sure anybody who's capable of caring -- or indeed anybody who owns a television at all -- is an illiterate moron.
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Seriously, is there an mp3 of this somewhere?
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What a nightmare. I was most familiar with Pete Seeger's genius version before this, and I've never seen "Weeds," but the Decemberists have massacred the hell out of the song, so far as I'm concerned.
This sounds like a kitschy mess to me, which isn't surprising given the band's horrendous track record.
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P.S. Pull your head out of your ass, Grobian, you pseudointellectual boob.
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Check it out, that boob just called the other boob a pseudointellectual boob.
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Grobian doesn't call it TV because nicknames are for friends and Television is no friend of his.
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"pseudointellectual boob" is a great name for a band. As is "Television". Hmmm....
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My final donut will be made of ..... jam.
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http://music.homegrownseries.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/3_the-decembrists_little-boxes.mp3
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