The Cardigans' "For What It's Worth"

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The most gorgeous song of the year, and it's only mid-March.

Memo to Badly Drawn Boy: have a listen to this tune and then take your beat up acoustic, yer Brooooce cover versions, and yer flea-ridden face fuzz and feck off.

― Venga, Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooops. Must...not...be....so....vituperative.

― Venga, Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

cool, a new cardigans album, will it be released in the US?...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but it sounds like Dawson Rock!

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

and not a patch on 'Silent Sigh' at all

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

SteveM, I've not been a fan of theirs but this new one is irresistible.

― Venga, Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

what the hell happened to nina's voice? she's turned into sheryl crow!!

― xnelio xx (xnelio), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i was going to say she does sound a bit Sheryl Crow...even a threat of Stevie Nicks at times - the track just seems to have this huge American Midwest country vibe. its fine, i dont see why it should get heaps of praise over Norah Jones 'Don't Know Why' though for example...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 March 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's devastating. Rollicking sadness, and Sheryl Crow can't do the breathy longing whisper thing. I don't understand the comparison to Norah Jones other than they're both female singers.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Stevem, we disagree on something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

this track is awful and i'm not even halfway through it.

*its heading into an unbearable climax*

*it ends*

damn. sounds like she's musing after a long shift at the Super-Walmart.

this song is an affront to country music and people who REALLY slave away for minimum wage at Walmart. there is no genuine emotion communicated through this song.

why would a beautiful, cosmopolitan swede bland herself down to this? is this really where the Cardigan's artistic muse has lead them or is this simply grubbing for airplay and $ ??

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's haunting and sad, about someone who is overcome by emotion for someone but doesn't want to scare the other person away - and then debases themselves for it - classic country. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Wal-mart!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no specific problems with bands goin' country: Sweetheart of the Rodeo is one of my all-time favs...

But this track has about as much soul as a suburban big-box store.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cover > Lovefool >>> FWIW

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Thursday, 24 March 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this song, but for me that whole album is about "Communication" and "Feathers and Down"

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

But this track has about as much soul as a suburban big-box store.

Soul is all around us.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

this album is so bizarrely good, still, years after pretty much everything else they did has lost whatever minimal appeal it once had

― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

I wouldn't be as tough on some of their other songs. but yes this is one of my favorite albums of the last ten years.

― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

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