THE RACKET : LIST 11 - Party Pools with Sad Centers

We've come to see almost all of our playlists as the sonic equivalent of swimming pool. The swimming pool is full of people, slowly bobbing around in the lukewarm water, chlorine burning at their eyes, wondering just why they've ended up just where they are. Consider the swimming pool and its slow, brooding inhabitants to be the middle of the playlist. The outside of the pool - the tiled area in which you are instructed from the age of baby time to forever to never, ever run around - is full of good-time party folks. Some are nursing drinks, many are smoking cigarettes, a few are pushing against the age-old taboo of heightened movement on the potentially slick tiled area by dancing. It is a good time, a great time even. There are probably cocktail umbrellas and wacko-tobacco. The outside of the pool is the beginning and ending of our playlists. Fast times at pool party time at the beginning and end; slow, brooding sulk in the middle. 

Party pools with sad centers - it's just what we know how to do.