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[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #50 Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus

Posted on | November 11, 2009 | No Comments

SONGS OF THE DECADE #50

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Titus Andronicus – Titus Andronicus (2008)


In this day and age, getting one song any attention, be it on Public Radio or a review on Pitchfork, is enough to win an audience. “Titus Andronicus,” the song by the band Titus Andronicus, tries to be a classic in a world that doesn’t want 20 year olds from Glen Rock, New Jersey to produce a classic. The selection of what was once deemed “Shakespeare’s worst play” is telling: whether or not it’s Shakespeare’s worst play, it’s still Shakespeare, which, like pizza, sex, and music, is still better than no Shakespeare at all. Even if the band will never be as vital as Shakespeare, they’re smart enough to know that point lies in the trying (a band that reads that much Camus must know a thing or two about Sisyphus). The song acknowledges the meaninglessness of all social pretensions, but accepts that the only way to avoid them entirely is death. It’s able to overcome all that with a desperately honest song that demands its voice to be heard.

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