"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previous This Year, Portions For Foxes, or Better Things series. It alternates between Obscure and Famous songs; feel free to argue either way if you're so inclined. See the introduction for more.
This one is even more obscure than most of my Obscure songs, I think - from Math The Band, which is indeed a math-rock outfit, and had gone from a one-man operation to a two-person band by the time this song came out in 2009. (It's since become more of a "real" band with even more people, as far as I can tell.) I don't think this was a single or anything: it's just the song that I glommed onto when I heard their record Don't Worry, semi-randomly.
Some songs we love because of their attitude, and the way that attitude is embodied in the sound. This one of of those for me. It's got that fuzzy chiptune sound that screams "late Aughts" to me, and lyrics that take direct aim the slackers of every generation. (There was a new group of slackers then; there's a new one now; there was one earlier that I was part of. There will always be another one as long as there are people to slack off.)
Good enough isn't good enough
Good enough isn't good enough
Good enough is not good
This is another great song to play loudly in your car with the windows down, yelling along about how good enough isn't good enough. If you do that, it might help you even believe, internalize it.
I don't know if I entirely do believe that - "good enough" has often been just fine in my career - but I love the energy and enthusiasm and ambition, and I want to believe that attitude, that mindset. For a song, that's what matters.
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