Toad The Wet Sprocket - “Silo Lullaby”
I’ve spent hours wandering through aisles of CDs, looking for something new to bring home. Inevitably my eye will be caught by an old or forgotten favorite. I’ll pick it up, hold it, and skim the tracklisting and smile as I think about favorite songs on that record and I’ll wish I could buy the album again just so I could relive the experience of hearing those songs for the first time. I’ll think about all the pleasure that album brought me and even though I can listen to it any time I want I’ll wish I could start the clock all over again (I’m pretty sure no drug or treatment regimen exists to cure what’s wrong with me).
I cam e close to having that experience this morning. I picked up where I left off yesterday, listening to some Glen Phillips/Toad The Wet Sprocket. I started with some songs from Coil, the last album Toad recorded. I listened to a chunk of their rarities record In Light Syrup. I scrolled the list of Toad albums on my iPod and glanced at PS, their compilation and saw a song I remembered by title but not by content.
The string arrangement for “Silo Lullaby” is just beautiful and Phillips delivers such a wonderful, tender vocal. I don’t remember the first time I listened to “Silo Lullaby” nor do I remember the last, and that is simply unacceptable. This song is too wonderful to be ignored and forgotten. It has been a revelation and my morning is better for it.
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