Not much has been happening lately in Triangle land. For at least some members of the band, other things in life have recently jostled their way to front position on the list of priorities.

But on a completely unrelated matter, a very cool melbourne-based music website called wireless bollinger has just published a glowing review of our recently released album seventy-five year plan.

http://www.wirelessbollinger.com/reviews/music_reviews/seventy-five_year_plan/

It's really nice when other people like your music, and even nicer, I suppose, when they write intelligently about why they like it.

There are some interesting remarks in the review about our lyrics, and it got me to thinking: what sort of lyrics do I like, and why. At first blush, I think I know what lyrical qualities I don't like, namely: earnestness, over-reaching sentimentality, cleverness, unselfconscious use of cliche, humourlessness, and rampant egocentricity. But then it's strange, because there are lots of songs that I really like in which these qualities are very much present. And thus I am led to a fairly mundane conclusion. I don't really have any idea why I like the lyrics that I do. Speaking personally, I have probably written about three or four songs in the history of the Triangles that I feel satisfied with on a lyrical level. Maybe if I knew better what I liked and why, I would find it easier to write songs that I myself enjoy. But maybe not.

In conclusion, here are some songs that I think have really good lyrics.

     Break Away - The Beach Boys
     Neighbourhood 1 - Arcade Fire
     A Wolf at the Door - Radiohead
     Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones
     Hunter - Bjork
     Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
     Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
     Fall on Me - REM

And, in a slightly different way to these ones, I also really like

     Cover it With Gas and Set in on Fire - Ween
     The Cheesecake Song - King Missile

Cheerio,

- Robert.