Favorite Songs Of 2014, #14
“Seasons (Waiting On You)” - Future Islands
Sometimes great songs get an extra push from a video or nationally televised performance. This is a fine example of that phenomenon, as the band’s performance on Letterman last spring nearly broke the Internet.[1]
But that performance should not hide that this is a great song even without Samuel T. Herring’s wacky stage presence. It is a simple, yet forceful, statement on the perils of trying to change, or change for, someone that you love.
Seasons change, But I’ve grown tired of trying to change for you
Previously: 20 - “Black And White” - Parquet Courts 19 - “I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)” - School Of Seven Bells 18 - “We Only Come Out At Night” - Sugar Stems 17 - “Too True To Be Good” - Dum Dum Girls 16 - “Milwaukee” - The Both 15 - “New Skin” - Torres
- Which meant there had to be a backlash that insisted the performance, and the song, really weren’t that good. ↩