What's The Story?
This track is most often associated with Gary Jules' creepy. mood-perfect version in the movie Donnie Darko. Occasionally someone remembers it as a campy Tears For Fears song. This guilty pleasure version comes from Evergreen Terrace's aptly named cover album Writer's Block.
Who's To Blame?
The guy who thinks up the best nicknames on the spot.
Why ♥ It?
You're not going to make a better moody cover of this than Gary Jules, and Evergreen Terrace don't even try. Rather than going for the social isolation aspect of the song, the band tackles it from the social angst standpoint.
I'll go about this one by way of a guided tour.
The first verse is terribly simple: a dissonant chime sound, a bass line, palm muted guitar chords, and frank vocals. The chorus features some neat guitar work, adding neat chord structures and lead guitar sounds to enrich the song.
Starting at 0:50 and onward, the low, grim vocal line is joined with a second vocal track with a nice, gruff screaming vocal. The lyrics are not incomprehensible, but not plainly sung. This carries on into the second verse, giving a feeling that the song is building intensity as it goes along.
After the second chorus and subsequent bridge, the chorus/outro plays with all guns blazing; the most intense instrumentation and most pronounced gruff vocal section.
Ideally, this song isn't compared to Jules' cover as the same take, but a different take on the same theme: it's not hard to envision social isolation replaced by angst, and Evergreen Terrace convey that emotion very effectively.
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