That's what love songs often do

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That's what love songs often do became Fig Dish's debut album in 1995. This is one incredible album. These thirteen songs have become instant classics for me and is probably one of, if not, the best CD I own, next to when shove goes back to push of course. Though it my take a few listens to really sink in, you'll love that sinking feeling when it happens. Check out what others have to say in the reviews section.

If you have a serious brain malfunction and just happen to not have this album, download some sounds in the appropriately titled sounds section.

There are lyrics floating around the web and as Blake himself said in a response to Ando's email, some are wrong. I may attempt to make my own with a little help from my friends. Ooo, I get by with a little help from my friends. If I ever get them up, they'll be in the lyrics section.

Like good food at McDonalds, Fig Dish tabs are extremely rare. I don't think they even exist. They are unreal. They're not called Fig Dish tabs, they're called Fig Dish tabsi. It's easy to guess on some of their songs, but that's a very small minority. I may try to put together some tabs in the future, but that may take some time. Anyway, they will be in the tabs section if they ever materialize.

[SOUNDS] | [LYRICS] | [TABS] | [REVIEWS]

Sounds

1 Bury me (WAV 183kb)
2 Weak and mean (WAV 235 kb)
3 Seeds (WAV 234 kb)
4 Chew toy (WAV 284 kb)
5 Nimble (WAV 150 kb)
6 Wrong nothing (WAV 294 kb)
7 Quiet storm king (WAV 259 kb)
8 Going gone (WAV 188 kb)
9 Lemonader (WAV 233 kb)
10 Rollover, please (WAV 300 kb)
11 It's your ceiling (WAV 264 kb)
12 Resistance is futile (WAV 234 kb)
13 First history (WAV 230 kb)

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Bury me WAV 183 kb
I can't settle down
since I've been around
gonna fall off the world any day
still, you make a sound
like a spill when you hit the ground
bury me up to my waist
carry me back to my

so far as I can tell
feels like cathedral bells
that I found in the mess that you made
walked into the room
got ???
and a smile still pulled at your face
you said let's get out of this place

when you stand in shit, when you stand
when you land on your feet
it's cold, I feel alone, and you're giving me more than I need

wanna be with you

Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Weak and mean WAV 235 kb
I can't pretend that this sounds good to me
don't listen to me, I get weak and mean
on the inside, on the inside weak and mean
on the inside

never know what you feel, I could only guess
just as easily I could, don't forget

no longer away
can't break you from my mind this favorite thing
do I torture you like you do me
on the outside, on the outside I get green
on the outside, on the outside

never know what you feel, I could only guess
just as easily I could, don't forget
no longer away, no longer away

the finest point to you can kill the rest
don't pin this on me, I'm not at my best

Bury me | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Seeds WAV 234 kb
I can see it now, you're gonna spiral down
I'd like to shake this feeling but it sticks somehow
and you wipe it off like a cool breath smear
like a stinkin summer you can disappear

CHORUS:
you're still around
can't you swallow it down
well I'm so
unsound, can't you figure it out
well I know that you're only gonna find it's no big deal
kills me just to think that you're for real
you're only one crack on the back of the last page
and I'm nothing too

all you're twisted thoughts are fallin at your feet
you're mind is grizzled and you can't speak
I can wipe you off like a cold breath smear
like a stinkin summer you disappear

CHORUS

seeds in the brain

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Chew toy WAV 284 kb
will you please relax
I try to get obsessed but I can't even get upset
we feed the largest ones first
wide eyed till they burst

I feel the pause before the fact
suggest we hand it down but you insist we give it back

CHORUS:
I feel the dawn, I feel the rut
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
you save me if I get in but
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
I fear you give me what you've got
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
I feel the dawn, I fear the rush
nah nah nah nah nah

ability to distract
something I'll never have, something I'll never lack
we see the largest ones first
wild eyed till they burst

I feel the pause before the fact
suggest we hand it down but you insist we give it back
full candid into, candid into

CHORUS

will you please relax

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Nimble WAV 150 kb
you say I'm dumb and I'm doin it wrong
you say I'm right for playin along
it seems to others to me and it is, it is

sit inside, not saving me at all
similar, not saving me at all
sit inside, not saving me at all

CHORUS:
you see them turning inside themselves
you see them turning away
terrified just to face themselves
I feel them run off

everything you crave and you fear
seems to vanish and surface near
wave it off and it comes in clear, not here

dig your nails in and drag

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Wrong Nothing WAV 294 kb
and it causes wear right through my eyes
another chance I've grown to realize
something's wrong, there's nothing wrong
nothing wrong at all
we have to make our problems up as we go along

CHORUS:
I dwell on you
I dwell on you too
I dwell on you
I dwell on you too long, too long

I smell the rain as it beats down upon the summer stone
settles all my doubts, now we're not alone
there's something wrong, there's nothing wrong
nothing wrong at all
we have to make our problems up as you go along

CHORUS Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Quiet storm king WAV 259 kb
bored of you and everything you've done
maybe that's not true before now but it's for now on
to be exactly what I need to amazed what I believe, what I believe

do yourself to someone else, alright
disappointment hurts and now you know what not to try
make you feel so small and real pissed at yourself for being for real

and I believe that we will last a long time
ever after till we both wish we were gone

did you know that you'd be gone so long
glorious has spun the web of weakening I've become
to be exactly what I need to amazed what I believe

and I believe that we will last a long time
ever after till we both wish we were gone

there's no place that I'd rather be than no where
quiet storm king you will soon be on your own

and I'm afraid that we will last a long time
ever after till we both wish we were gone
we sit still while it comes so it comes too slow
quiet storm king you will soon be on your own

there's no place that I'd rather be than no where
there's no place that can hurt you like your home
ever after till we both wish we were somewhere
quiet storm king you will soon be on your own

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing |
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Going gone WAV 188 kb
got you to mind now what to will with it
given any time, given any time
this situation will not work itself
no amount of time, no amount of time

CHORUS:
we're goin no where, goin fast
to put in the brakes and you should ask her
nothing you can say will mean a thing
simple faith in words is no good
details get misunderstood
leave me with a good idea to sing

come turn me senseless, you know what you want
not another thing, never anything
us powerless there are no whims no more
nothing in the way, nothing in the way

CHORUS

your words are in your mouth, you choke on them
scatter them around, scatter them around
your best foot forward and you trip on it

CHORUS

going, going gone

???
you need her and she needs you

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Lemonader WAV 233 kb
CHORUS:
I used to be entrenched in myself
but you bring it on, bring it on out
you could care less if I fell
and I think you might when you come down
I could drown in all the reasons
already down before I was sinking

there's nothing left, I let out everything
I feel the rashes in my gun
the night's so stained, the morning can clean up

if you can't get yourself together
I'll watch the wind sweep up the dust
you're right the only thing that's keeping up
but it's already lost

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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Rollover, please WAV 300 kb
can we not talk about it
can we get back to bed
Goddamn those ideas in your head

who says it has to happen
I'll see it over just as much
can we make all the rules at once

CHORUS:
don't talk to me now
you'll be all right now
please rollover
yeah, it'll be okay

looks like you've got your demons
looks like your head's a mess
break down, yeah, do what you do best

clock radio's green on your face
and light don't cross the wall
three hours isn't sleep at all

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | It's your ceiling | Resistance is futile | First history

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It's your ceiling WAV 264 kb
I'd erase you if I could
but I don't wanna be misunderstood
the odds are good
we're lower than the ground you stand on wood
as hard as you are

I'm seein static all the time
it's only second to the dirt I effortlessly find
in your mind
can't feel, can't reveal my bleakest side
it's a lie

it looks like I fell behind
go ahead, be mislead if you're inclined
take your time
incidently you've wasted most of mine

CHORUS:
got this low blissful bleeding
if that's what you want
oh
am I low, it's your ceiling
(is that what you want)

I'd erase you if I could
but it's too late to be misunderstood
the odds are good
we're lower than the ground you stand on wood
as hard as you

CHORUS

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | Resistance is futile | First history

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Resistance is futile WAV 234 kb
why do I bother to complain
I know the noise won't set it right
why do I bother to explain
myself to dumbass you

quit telling me one way only
please bend you know you owe me
the leash is broken truely
better that than you have crowed me

oh no, said I
why should I hide
still myself resides
I can't resist

I get sick of hearing time
I'll make a mirrored mark
you treat yourself so mean
I'd never intervene
oh no, said I
why should I hide
still myself resides
I can't resist
chain myself upright
then played away

it's snowing heavy, look at back
because I come to make it black
you prefer the thunder crack

you said it's out there and I can't find it
and baby I know
no reason to stall
I love one, I love one
baby I know

???
I get the baggage you give to grow
deep beneath the undertoe

you said it's out there and I can't find it
and baby I know
no reason to stall, you're for it
and baby I know

Bury me | Weak and mean | Seeds | Chew toy | Nimble | Wrong nothing | Quiet storm king
Going gone | Lemonader | Rollover, please | It's your ceiling | First history

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TABSi

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Reviews

Mike's review
"Their first album 'That's what love songs often do' was incredible. With their captivating lyrics and mesmerizing music, it's a listen-to-the-whole-thing, never-shut-it-off smash hit!"

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Rating: 5+

Wow. The title of this disc is incredibly deceptive. This band is neither silly nor mushy. Instead, Fig Dish rock out in a really interesting way, sometimes reminding me of the Records or Mother May I. At other times, though, the group sounds much, much harsher than either of those bands. A couple of listens was all it took for this unique band to grab me by the balls and pull like hell, causing That's What Love Songs Often Do to become one of my favorite discs at the moment. An intelligent man's pop band with a real backbeat.
-- Criminal Records review

Before Grave Dancers Union, Soul Asylum was a balls to the wall garage band; pure, unfiltered and raw. No countrified garbage, no "Runaway Train" and no Winona Ryder. Fig Dish remembers. That's What Love Songs Often Do, the band's debut effort, manages to reignite the sparks created by such 80's pioneers as Husker Du and early Soul Aslyum, while still creating a fresh, aggressive and multitextual sound.

Hailing from Chicago, Fig Dish can look forward to being lumped together with such windy city alterna-legends as Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill and Catherine, and to do so would not be entirely inaccurate. Fig Dish's sound, while containing many of the core elements of the Minneapolis music scene, does inherit one key attribute from its Chicago lineage, that being an extremely complex and layered song structure. Songwriters Blake Smith and Rick Ness succeed in creating songs which ellicit varying emotions, change tempos frequently and fluctuate between the gentle and the heavy all within the confines of a four minute parameter. Like the songs of Billy Corgan, That's What Love Songs Often Do lacks nothing but simplicity.

The music on That's What Love Songs Often Do ranges from guitar heavy garage rock to gentle and foreboding laments, frequently deviating between the two extremes. The album opens feverishly with "Bury me", a quick shot of adrenaline which sets the mood for things to come. Next up is "Weak and Mean", a well crafted, angst ridden tirade which conjures up images of a troubled and one-sided relationship told with just a touch of necessary punk pride. The vocal duties on the album are shared by Smith and Ness, each having a raw and gruff sound eerily similar to that of Paul Westerberg, managing to be downright beautiful and haunting in spite of its dominating graininess.

"Brilliant juxtaposition between rough-edged grunge rock and softer, more heartfelt selections. Packed with an energy, wit and overall insight which is too often lacking from most debut efforts. Easily the year's best new band."
-- Jason Cahill, Consumable

from: btpass@inland.com

"This is an incredible pop album. Every song makes you wish you had a convertible. I just hope that one of these sh**ty pseudo-alternative radio stations doesn't ruin this secret for us."

"Boy oh boy, if all pop-oriented "alternative" music were this good, then it would be a fine world indeed. These guys weigh in somewhere between Smashing Pumpkins' well-honed humming crush of guitar noise, and The Lemonheads' penchant for writing tuneful songs. The result is very pleasing. They give us an album full of world-weary but slyly optimistic singalongs with tasty hooks and a nice, tough sound, to boot. Recommended"
-- BANDAGE

Yeah, highly.
-- R. Petti

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