nice guys singing about feelings

I spent the whole day muttering "When I switched off my feelings, that's when I lost control" under my breath. I really love Teenage Fanclub. They're everything good in this world. I remember listening to them for the first time around March last year, right before the final physics exam of my life. I was listening to "The Concept" (which is pure genius) and drinking coffee and standing at the door of my balcony and staring at the tree with pink flowers and that moment was so right because it was the first time in days when I just felt good and not stressed and just happy and this intense feeling of frisson just overtook me. It was a good moment. Teenage Fanclub is good. They sound like a bunch of nice guys singing about nice feelings and sad feelings and happy feelings but the important thing is that they're nice guys. Like Wilco. Wilco sounds like a nice guy making excellent music about feelings and being human. 

The Strokes, however, don't sound like nice guys. They sound like a bunch of young dudes making music about being young and doing stupid shit and since you're young and you do stupid shit you can't be a nice guy (except for Nikolai, of course. He looks like the nicest guy ever). That doesn't make them bad guys or anything, but it's just that they aren't exactly nice. Maybe they'll grow old and be a bunch of nice old guys but they aren't... kind.

And Lou Reed. Lou Reed is all about feeling. The Velvet Underground only made music about being human. Their songs were matters of the heart. So my sister and I reached a consensus about Lou Reed and that was this: He isn't a malicious guy. You could say he's nice. The thing is, since he's a ~human~ he makes mistakes and thus hurts people and thus may not seem like a nice guy but he will always sing a song about it and realize he wasn't a nice guy so that makes him a nice guy.

Shit. It's tough being a nice guy.