http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naos7it_bl0
James Wilson, lead singer for the Virginia-based rock band Sons of Bill, compiled “a list of songs for and from the mouths of bad dancers” to accompany their new single, “Bad Dancer.” He comments:
In middle school I remember hearing a friend of my dad’s tell his daughter on her way to a dance, “Remember, the best lovers are the bad dancers.” I didn’t know exactly what that meant at the time, but the line stuck with me – most likely because I was as awkward as anyone else, feeling trapped on the outskirts, but madly in love with everything like everyone else. You see this same figure recurring in so many coming-of-age stories: Holden Caulfield, Quentin Compson, every John Cusack movie, etc. I’d been listening to a lot of older pop music at the time, and I got the idea to write them an anthem – a rock and roll love song for the awkward lovers. A dance song for the bad dancers.
As I get older I start to see the ways in which some people never really get over that awkward high-school dance feeling – it opens up into broader life questions of loneliness and wonder, desiring to belong but never quite feeling at home in your own skin. I picked these songs because I think they captured that feeling.
Number one on his list? The Smith’s “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before”, seen above.
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