{"id":24149,"date":"2015-06-29T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24149"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:01:11","slug":"the-best-songs-watch-courtney-barnetts-poignant-solo-delivery-of-depreston-on-fallon-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-06\/the-best-songs-watch-courtney-barnetts-poignant-solo-delivery-of-depreston-on-fallon-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Songs:  Watch Courtney Barnett&#8217;s Poignant, Solo Delivery of &#8220;Depreston&#8221; on Fallon Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"CP Depreston Fallon\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CP-Depreston-Fallon.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney Barnett<\/strong> has a winning way with words, and never more so than on her recent song <em><strong>Depreston<\/strong><\/em>, which is on our short list for <strong>Best Song of the Year<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Barnett<\/strong> is a master of lyrical irony and inflection (lyrics at bottom).\u00a0 Watch below as the <strong>Tonight Show<\/strong> craftily captured <strong>Barnett<\/strong> rendering the song solo.\u00a0 We are particularly struck on &#8220;Streaming Monday&#8221; by the closing coda:\u00a0 &#8220;If you\u2019ve got a spare half a million, you should knock it down and start rebuilding.&#8221;\u00a0 Yeah, which musician doesn&#8217;t these days?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WDoHd6bMNCY\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said we should look out further,<br \/>\nI guess it wouldn\u2019t hurt us.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t have to be around all these coffee shops.<br \/>\nNow we\u2019ve got that percolator,<br \/>\nnever made a latte greater.<br \/>\nI\u2019m saving twenty-three dollars a week.<\/p>\n<p>We drive to a house in Preston,<br \/>\nwe see police arresting<br \/>\na man with his hand in a bag.<br \/>\nHow\u2019s that for first impressions?<br \/>\nThis place seems depressing.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a \u201cCalifornian bungalow in a cul-de-sac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got a lovely garden,<br \/>\na garage for two cars to park in<br \/>\n(\u201cor a lot of room for storage if you\u2019ve just got one\u201d).<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s going pretty cheap you say?<br \/>\n\u201cWell it\u2019s a deceased estate\u2026<br \/>\naren\u2019t the pressed metal ceilings great?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I see the handrails in the shower,<br \/>\na collection of those canisters for coffee, tea and flour,<br \/>\nand a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>And I can\u2019t think of floorboards anymore,<br \/>\nwhether the front room faces south or north,<br \/>\nand I wonder what she bought it for.<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019ve got a spare half a million, you should knock it down and start rebuilding)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Barnett has a winning way with words, and never more so than on her recent song Depreston, which is on our short list for Best Song of the Year.\u00a0 Barnett is a master of lyrical irony and inflection (lyrics at bottom).\u00a0 Watch below as the Tonight Show craftily captured Barnett rendering the song solo.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24155,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24149\/revisions\/24155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}