Sunday, August 01, 2010

"He's so much more like Spider-Man than you will ever, ever be"



That's EDILW favorites Los Campesinos! performing "Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats" from their 2008 album Hold on Now, Youngster...

It's the chorus that is of particular interest, for its mention of Spider-Man as...an ideal not being lived up to by the addressee as well as it is by someone else. Or Something.

Anyway, the chorus:
Plunge your hand, rip out my spine
Replace it with a UV light
So I can be the beacon of hope that you'd always expected

These constant broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats
Looping round and round to me
You know he's so much more like Spider-Man than you will ever, ever be.
You can hear what the song sounds like on the actual album here.

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