Some dark humor with my family years ago, we were all thinking about what song we would each want played at our funerals... When it came to my father, he got dead serious and earnestly asked us to play this song when he passes. Surprisingly really, since he's quite an old man, rarely listens to anything from after the seventies, and I wouldn't have expected he even knew who the Shins were. I asked him why, and he said, "It's the story of my life. I heard it in my heart before he ever sang the words."
New Slang changed my life. Before it I had never heard a song that felt like me. Thank you Zach Braff for introducing it to me and thank you James for The Shins ❤
One of the most enchanting songs I know. I wonder how many gorgeous songs like this are never heard because of the bar scene. Most of the lyrics are still a mystery to me still, but I'm so glad for the insights here. Thank you.
Some songs just blow you away. They're strong and powerful. Incredibly melancholic or incredibly joyful. As an example of the first category take Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel with "Don't give up". For the second category listen to ELO's "Hold on Tight to Your Dreams". "New Slang" could be simply placed in the first category. But I feel that it needs to have a category of its own. Maybe together with Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere" .
I always thought "new slang when you notice the stripes" was about trying to seem cool to fit in and was referring to the White Stripes. The real meaning is so much darker.
Some dark humor with my family years ago, we were all thinking about what song we would each want played at our funerals... When it came to my father, he got dead serious and earnestly asked us to play this song when he passes. Surprisingly really, since he's quite an old man, rarely listens to anything from after the seventies, and I wouldn't have expected he even knew who the Shins were. I asked him why, and he said, "It's the story of my life. I heard it in my heart before he ever sang the words."
that's incredibly poetic
This story on itself is a song.
You know. I have the song My Ride's Here on my personal funeral playlist.
That's intense!
this is beautiful man
New Slang changed my life. Before it I had never heard a song that felt like me. Thank you Zach Braff for introducing it to me and thank you James for The Shins ❤
I like that, thank you Zack Braff. I didn’t watch the movie they talking about, but it is on an episode of scrubs.
One of my favorite movies @williamyoste2812
This is one of my favorite songs, nice to hear the story behind it
One of the most enchanting songs I know. I wonder how many gorgeous songs like this are never heard because of the bar scene. Most of the lyrics are still a mystery to me still, but I'm so glad for the insights here. Thank you.
james, i miss discovering your music so much, wish i could have amnesia and re experience them again
Garden State is how the song and The Shins reached me in Australia. Thanks Napster and Braffster!
Fantastic interview. Inverted World has never left my music rotation since 2004
Happy 20th!🎉
I wouldn’t have known about The Shins if it wasn’t for the movie Garden State
Right on!
That movies soundtrack is amazing
Garden State brought me to the shins. Thank you so much. Changed my life.
One of the songs that I miss about my teenage
Very well job done
Very nice song
I would put that one on repeat and party
I do
Some songs just blow you away. They're strong and powerful. Incredibly melancholic or incredibly joyful. As an example of the first category take Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel with "Don't give up". For the second category listen to ELO's "Hold on Tight to Your Dreams".
"New Slang" could be simply placed in the first category. But I feel that it needs to have a category of its own. Maybe together with Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere" .
This is a fantastic song, absurd but understandable, like blood on bread, it works it's edible
Great voice!
The soundtrack of NPR stories
The Shins were my kids first concert at the Kiva Auditorium
The Shins - New Slang
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Manchester Orchestra - The Maze, The Silence
Four PERFECT songs!
Nailed it. Probably my top 3 favorite bands
ONLY NEW SLANG THE REST BLOW
I want to know if the band in the lagoon shot was a Slint-- Spiderland nod
I always thought "new slang when you notice the stripes" was about trying to seem cool to fit in and was referring to the White Stripes. The real meaning is so much darker.
For the first time I heard it in Scrubs
Its was in the Sopranos before Garden State came out
Which episode of Sopranos was it in?
Bingo!
Loved the first three Shins albums. Couldn’t get into everything he did afterwards.
It’s cool Kevin Spacey found another career
This shins was a cold band, this new band covering the shins songs with Mercer singing is a boring chapter.