Comments on: Review: Wincing the Night Away, The Shins

By: Melaney

Melaney — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:57:46 +0000

What a nice site, been surfing on it for the whole night and day and i neva got bored for a single minute. Keep up your good work and all of the best in everything you do!

By: PhantomLimb

PhantomLimb — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:15:56 +0000

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ear+goggles

By: jstar

jstar — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:20:35 +0000

Wow, I didn’t mean to start something. Let me mediate - if you look at http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858632001
you will see that whoever put the lyrics in said earphones and then look at the final comments and it says eargoggles. (which sounds more right to me). Now let’s fight about why it’s called australia because that doesn’t make sense either.

By: exZAKtly

exZAKtly — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:52:06 +0000

Wikipedia? Puh-leeez. If I’m sure of ONE thing, it’s that he’s NOT saying “ear goggles”.

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:46:52 +0000

sorry, i don’t care what wikipedia says the lyrics are…he is CLEARLY saying “time to put the ear goggles on.” and then a girl says “no.” listen to the syllables.

By: exZAKtly

exZAKtly — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:16:22 +0000

Given that the first “real” line of the song is “Born to multiply”, I wish he was saying “beer goggles”, but I do believe it is the much more common, much more boring….EARPHONES.

By: jstar

jstar — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:09:02 +0000

That is definitely not German at the beginning of Australia. I think Joie is right, He is saying “Time to put the eargoggles on.”

Why am I still so obsessed with this song?

By: desertsmissrain

desertsmissrain — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:02:00 +0000

So did you guys ever figure out what Australia is about? I really want to know too.

I am curious to know what happened to the Swedish chick from your high school. Google her and let us know.

By: sparky

sparky — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:46:21 +0000

Z train catch a wreck…you have way too much time on your hands. Even though this was a solid review while giving me a few chuckles along the way.

That Zak Braff is SO dreamy…

By: martinko

martinko — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:26:26 +0000

“Damn Zach Braff, damn anyone who doesnâ€™t damn Zach Braff, and damn anyone who doesnâ€™t stay up all night damning Zach Braff.”

I admire Zach Braff. Also though this does made me laugh.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:37:36 +0000

serially comercially raped?

That said, this review made me giggle, despite (or perhaps because of) the warm toilet seat simile. When *I* enter the bathroom I don’t think “God I hope that seat’s pre-warmed,” I picture my friend Drew saying, “you know, you can get chlamydia from those…”

By: FritzKD

FritzKD — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:30:37 +0000

Uh, ‘New Slang’ was in a McDonald’s ad long before Garden State came out, so “commercially raped” might be a bit strong…

By: jstar

jstar — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:54:32 +0000

‘Australia’ is my favorite right now as well. Is he saying ‘faced with an android’s conundrum’ in the last verse? What do you think that means?

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:32:15 +0000

i happen to think zach braff has good taste in music. i don\’t mind that he made the shins almost mainstream with that soundtrack because i would rather the shins be mainstream than limp bizkit. i dislike zach braff for other reasons, namely because he was a jerk to my best friend last summer in l.a.

\”australia\” is the song i can\’t stop listening to.

By: munkey

munkey — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:46:33 +0000

Nice review of one of my favorite bands. But hey, don’t knock Windows Media Player. That shit keeps me going sometimes.