3:11
Marvelous Clouds, 2012
Written by Rod McKuen
These songs have Vs!
Is this the album that helped hasten the breakup of Ween? No, probably not. Why a collection of Rod McKuen songs? Why not, I guess. To my amazement, the poet and songwriter released several dozen albums. And Frank Sinatra commissioned a whole album from him! But I digress. This song has very little of the Ween "brown," those distorted tones, homages-cum-parodies, and put-on voices that turn off some listeners and endear the band to their fans. The arrangement is more or less straight '60s adult pop, and Freeman's voice twinkles along, playing the schmaltz ("Your body, moving down to mine / Is like the coupling of the pale November clouds") straight. In a way, playing this stuff straight, for Freeman, is itself a transgression of form. Maybe that's why I like it.
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