Feeling Good
For some reason, it’d been a while since I’d heard the song until I heard someone casually singing it over the weekend. Do you know what a great song this is? It’s a song that’s always struck me as having something a little devilish about it. Some days, I hear relief in it. Others, hedonistic pleasure in washing away everything that came before. My favorite cover of it is Muse’s - I believe they actually released it as a single - in which they nail down the darker tones of the song.
One of my favorite uses for the song that I can remember is the Six Feet Under Season 4 promo, where it’s conceptualized and played to pretty great effect (remember, friends: Six Feet Under are not only the only TV show to receive song licensing from the Arcade Fire, but they actually threw a b-side their way for one of the music-from-the-show soundtracks: “Cold Wind”. This is notable because they’re notoriously picky about who uses their songs.)