Shout Out Louds: It’s Hard Work to be Loved
Posted by Troy | Filed under Music
Even though Our Ill Wills is one of my favorite albums of the last couple years, I still have trouble remembering the name Shout Out Louds.
I have no idea why… it is just one of those things… I can never remember the name of the band.
Luckily I live with my wife…
So I can just ask “who is that one band that I really love and they sound like The Cure?”
Somehow on this new album they’ve managed to move beyond Robert Smith and now seem to be channeling any number of New Wave heroes.
For a moment I’ll hear something familiar and try to pin them down… “This sounds just like….”
but then the moment is gone and along with it Depeche Mode or Cocteau Twins or Duran Duran or New Order.
Which at first was disappointing, but after a few listens I realized it isn’t The Cure that I love (even though I do), it’s Shout Out Louds.
“Fall Hard” has me thinking…
How my own personal failures effect other people… and not only that, but those closest to me are the ones who fall even harder.
I guess it’s probably no coincidence that two tracks later you’ll find “Walls.”
Because that’s what we do.
We build these walls that keep everyone at a distance… some may enter (to a certain degree) but no one gets past them all.
Because we know if they do… they’ll just end up hurt.
The irony of it all is that those I hurt the most are they who fall hard… not only in the pain… but in the recovery.
Diving on the floor to pick up my pieces when I no longer can.
They are the ones who teach me what love is.
and it’s not about keeping the peace (as I’d always believed).
No… you keep peace with your enemies.
The loved will always be hurt… unintionally in most cases… but the damage will come nonetheless.
But what you do with it is the measure…
Take it?
Sweep it under rug?
Walk away?
Or is there a way to learn and grow as a result of the falls?
More mistakes will come… but can we learn to avoid the same hurts over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…………
I guess it’s also no coincidence that an album centered around real-life-love is titled Work.
Shout Out Louds – Walls
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