{"id":363,"date":"2012-09-07T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-09-06T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:52:27","slug":"song-of-the-week-chelsea-hotel-oral-sex-song-by-jeffrey-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song&#8221; by Jeffrey Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This week it&#8217;s &#8220;Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song&#8221; by Jeffrey Lewis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlRanftUqO4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard performed two sets at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endoftheroadfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">End of the Road Festival<\/a> last weekend, and along with a lecture on the history of punk rock from 1950 to 1975 and an upbeat and cheery cover of &#8220;Kurious Oranj&#8221; by The Fall, this was one of the highlights of his two performances.\u00a0 First of all, I have a minor ambition to write some kind of essay about songs about music (feel free, dear reader, to rip this idea off and do it yourself), and &#8220;Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song&#8221; moves into a special subcategory of songs about music: a song about a song.\u00a0 Like most Jeffrey Lewis songs, it&#8217;s entertaining and clever without being obnoxiously arch, which is a trick harder to pull off than it might seem; but it&#8217;s more than just a silly or clever song: the wistful tone that drops in at the very end, with the idea of someone singing a song about you, the listener gives the song a slightly fuller meaning than it carries otherwise.\u00a0 And then of course, with two words, Jeffrey Lewis undercuts that wistfulness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a song that will change your life, but it will make you listen to Leonard Cohen a little differently, and when you walk past the Chelsea Hotel&#8211;if you ever walk past the Chelsea Hotel&#8211;you&#8217;ll have one more rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll moment to think about.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Chelsea%20Hotel%20Oral%20Sex%20Song%22%20by%20Jeffrey%20Lewis\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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