Air - Don't Be Light

[oscillations.]

You may be surprised to learn that this is one of my favorite Air songs/singles - a truly interesting highlight from the much-maligned 10,000 Hz Legend album. It is nothing short of gorgeous and transcendent.
Favorite parts: the intro, the strings, the "l-l-lights!", the electric bass-disguised-as-guitar solo leading to Beck's incomparable spoken word partin the bridge, the whistling & stuttering vocal in the end - the continual crescendo & fall of the structure. It gets me every time. This song has the power to heal. It got me through some tough times.

Don't Be Light [Version (a)]:

Don't be light, don't be light
Don't be light, maybe like me
Don't be light, don't be light
Don't be light, maybe like me
Don't be light

Don't don't be light
Don't maybe like me
Don't light don't be light
Don't light maybe like me
Don't light

Don't be light, don't be light oh
Wild life, the grey surprises of our days
Singing in caves, fabricating a new abandon
We don't see the master's hand
We bang on gold tambourines
In the crosshairs of some transient gun
Trading desires on the banquet line
La la la la la la... la la la la la la
La la la la la la... la la la la la la

Don't don't be light
Don't, maybe like me
Don't be light, don't be light
Don't be light, maybe like me
Don't be light

[jaxxalude]

For me, "Don't Be Light" is exactly the epitome of much of what's wrong with 10 000 Hz Legend: it's too sprawling, too muddled, too excessive, too everything, really. Good thing that The Neptunes came and saved the day with that funky-as-fuck and less-is-definitely-more remix!

[oscillations.]

And for me, everything that you just complained about is it's asset. I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one.