Sep. 8, 2009
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“They’ll Need A Crane,” the Wrens (They Might Be Giants cover). I’ve been on kind of a Wrens kick lately, so here’s another oddity for you: a cover from Hello Radio, a 2006 tribute to They Might Be Giants. Like Charles Bissell’s Okkervil River cover, the songwriting is classic Wrens material: an onlooker gawking at the end of a relationship, wondering how the lovers are going to move on: “They’ll need a crane / To pick the broken ruins up again / To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain.” Sentimental lyrics, prickly guitars. Way more intense than the bouncy, goofy original.