The Everybody Fields- Nothing is Okay
Genre: Folk/Indie/Country
Released: 2008
What set they rep? Johnson City, Tennessee
Track list:
1. Aeroplane
2. Lonely Anywhere
3. Don’t Turn Around
4. Leaving Today
5. Birthday
6. Savior
7. Be Miner
8. Wasted Time
9. Everything is Okay
10. Tuesday
11. Over and Done
12. Out on the Highway
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Hey there y’all, today We have another contribution from a voice foreign to Our usual homestead. Enjoy, fiends…
We’ve all had the pain of what it feels like to have someone love you. It’s quite possibly the most beautifully excruciating game. Yes, Love is a game, so fuck off Lady Gaga*, you’re capitalizing on a cliché, you’re not cool. Anyway, when in the throes of love or lust or what have you, it’s a delicate balance of appreciation, damaging actions, and madness i feel. i mean i could be wrong, but i’m not. It’s crazy, it’s exhilarating, and it’s certainly worth it- and it takes a band like The Everybodyfields to ingrain that little sentiment so far into your soul you can feel it on the tips of your eyelashes.
Their album, Nothing is Okay is more than an appropriate title for their impressive 52 minute and 21 second conceptual blockbuster. To me, their opening song Lonely Anywhere emulates the feeling one gets when you know you’re getting used, yet don’t have the respect for yourself to do anything about it. This makes the worst aspects of relationships romantic and sickening- you can’t help but to sway your head with your eyes closed and have that awfully heartrending feeling you get in the bottom of your stomach. Jill Andrew’s voice comes through her soul and into your own when she sings:
and send me a little note in the mail
when my name appears on your list
of things to do
if you ever can see past you
i’ll keep some days clear
You always hope it might happen but men or women like “that” don’t change. We all know that, but We all hold on to that stupid idea that they will. We should stop doing that. The slow strumming on her guitar pervades your mind and suggests the sadness you should be feeling if you aren’t a ragin’ sociopath; it’s nice to feel sad sometimes, it makes you more creative. So wallow in your pit of despair, you owe it to yourself.
But the most badass part of this country folksy blue grassy work is that they’re not entirely emo and cynical about their failed relationships. They also break your heart with sung stories, like Out on the Highway. You’re swept off your little hipsta feet and brought back into the prohibition era in Kentucky, something i’m oddly fascinated with, so now you’re about to read about it. Anyway, it starts off:
out on the highway, son, be careful, your mother sure loves you.
Well mommies are great, let’s all agree on that. This song tells a story about this kid who smuggles whiskey over the state lines. Pretty legit. i mean who the fuck wouldn’t want to be that person who decidedly disobeys the law? i mean shit, i base my life off of civil disobedience. Again, i digress. Basically, this son is damn good at being a lawless badass, and laughs when cops shoot at his car while they’re violently chasing him. i repeat, badass, i mean i’d tap that bad assery, you’d be silly to not want to. The most depressing part of this entire song is when Sam Quinn sings in his voice of wonders:
your mother got at night
she’d just sit there by the window
crying boy oh when you comin’ home
at night i see her there on her knees and in her prayers
she says oh Jesus don’t leave us here alone
You’d be soulless to not stop what you’re doing and think about how much your mommy rocks, even though, generally, she’s a raging psycho who has a control complex, but hey what mom doesn’t? Because mine definitely does. It’s sad, and sad boosts your creativity so listen to this
-Tha Hipstah Heatwave
*note- The voices at Ergophobia neither truly despise nor dote on Lady Gaga.
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