Talk:I Love You For Psychological Reasons
This is one of TMBG's best songs in a while! I love that lead guitar and the backing vocals and the chorus melody and everything??? A+.com/10 ~ april 06:38, 23 December 2015 (EST)
Shades of "Renew my Subscription"[edit]
The melody, the dense internal rhymes, even the piano kind of acting in the same way as the marimba sound. No larger observation here, just occured to me.
--Tisher (talk) 15:15, 26 December 2015 (EST)
Would have walked onto the Glean album, but I'm guessing it wasn't written/recorded in time? Interesting example of the Linnell take on a love song. It's got a lovely melody too. If it's got a flaw it's the almost autistic way the lyrics (and there are so many lyrics, it must be exhausting to sing) kind of stop you engaging with the song? Chorus apart, the verses are oblique and almost impenetrable. Linnell choosing cleverness over a more direct message. It lacks space, and again Linnell's choking on too many lyrics in an uptempo number. Renew my Subscription as Tisher mentioned lacks the melody but the lyrics can breathe.
I do like this song, and it is something of a return to form, but the production (a real bug bear of mine at the moment) is too clinical, a problem with a lot of their new stuff. Compounded with Linnell's lyrics it's like it was written and recorded in a lab. Compare this song to say, They'll Need a Crane and I think you'll agree that this more recent effort lacks an organic emotional honesty and depth of the Lincoln classic. Saying that, before you all shout at me. I still gave it 8, but it could have been a 10. (Mr Tuck)
Different Reasons[edit]
It might be worth noting that the title is probably a play on the 1940s song "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons." - Scarlet Swordfish 5 March 2016
