MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks (September 6, 2024) Album • Page 10

Nobody show them Sonic Youth

 

Glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand these references. I like the music, but the lyrics are straight over my head lol

 

Love the feedback outro in Bark

 

The verse at the beginning of Wristwatch reminds of Lvl Up. Don’t ask me to explain it

 

She’s Leaving You is still my fave on here. Terrific song. Whole album is good

 

The feedback is meant to give you some time to look up the Himbo Dome before rolling the album back from the top

 

I've tried, the results are just Manning Fireworks reviews haha

 

you don’t know the shape i’m in is kind of like noisier andy shauf, and not just because of the clarinet

 

she’s leaving you perfect song

 

"Wristwatch" really is the one, maybe my second favorite song of the year so far

 

himbo is definitely googlable but portmanteau of bimbo and him basically—conventionally attractive male unburdened by excessive intelligence

I think it’s just a play on “thunderdome” or trying to sound like the name of a fake nfl stadium or something, many pro football stadiums are domes and have “dome” in the name

I think the buffalo line is a play on the Frank Ocean (beach house in Idaho) and George Strait (oceanfront property in Arizona) lines more than anything.

Before someone pipes up, yes I am aware Buffalo is on a body of water but you gotta understand that to a dude from Carolina a beach house on that coldass lake could appear equally pointless as a wristwatch that’s a pocketknife

 

yuuuuup

 

Thanks this is very helpful and I am particularly taken with the unburdened line haha.
My best interpretation after further attempts was that the line was essentially saying that the character of the song had tethered himself to the Himbo pursuit. And/or perhaps it was akin to saying he has invested in the culture, like if a sports analyst is high on a young player's future and says they have a "house on (the player's) island".

 

If there's a literal interpretation of it that's probably it, I still think it's a reference to Steely Dan's "Gaucho". The original is Custer Dome of course, but still...

 

That's it

 

i just think sometimes you have to put your clothes back on because she’s leaving you, one man’s opinion

 

She’s Leaving You is all I’ve been thinking about the last two days

 

Yeah, I already loved that song as a single but having it in context with the full album has me falling for it all over again

 

That song is so good

 

on a different note, who else could make “guess i’ll call you rip torn / the way you got tore up” work the way he does

 

Pole dancing to MJ Lenderman live…this is very cool

 

He really is having a moment.

I've had the Himbo dome line stuck in my head for like three fucking days

 

hope we get Live and Looser next year with the new tracks

 

The clarinet made me immediately think of Thirteen Hours, ha