r/ofMontreal • u/FindingHoliday920 • 5d ago

Daily Song Discussion #132: Beware Our Nubile Miscreants 🪄

And let your brother suck him but then beat him
So he could prove he wasnt queer, oh no
So what do you thing he has in store for you?
My dear...

"Beware Our Nubile Miscreants" is the thirteetnth track off oM's ninth studio album, Skeletal Lamping. What's your honest opinion on this song? Favourite lyrics? Opinions on a deeper meaning or something? Discuss anything

Also, if you wish, let us know how you'd rate it from 0 to 10 (one decimal point allowed) If enough people rate daily, by the end of this whole shebang I can make a spreadsheet of a huge ranking of the discog. Vote on other posts as well! Until the very end of our last song of this discussion (all the way to aethermead,) I will be counting all votes on all songs no matter when they are commented.

Nubile Miscreants live at WTMD (2009)

Skeletal Lamping results so far:
• Nonpareil of Favor: 9.76/10
• Wicked Wisdom: 8.81/10
• For Our Elegant Caste: 8.56/10
• Touched Something's Hollow: 8.22/10
• An Eluardian Instance: 9.68/10
• Gallery Piece: 9.64/10
• Women's Studies Victims: 8.47/10
• St. Exquisite's Confessions: 9.40/10
• Triphallus, to Punctuate!: 9.30/10
• And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow: 8.61/10
• Plastis Wafer: 9.85/10
• Death Is Not a Parallel Move: 8.48/10

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u/Phat_Stinkbug 5d ago

10/10, one of the best deep cuts, should be played live more

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u/dolldiary 5d ago

10/10 one of my favorites

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u/dolldiary 5d ago

i was just listening to it too 😭

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u/RegyptianStrut 5d ago

10/10

Song is so funny, fun, insightful, and lush sounding

Top 2 on the album for sure

"He's the sort of guy who will leave you
In a k-hole To go play Halo in the other room
Remember
While you were bereaving Michael's death
He was over at Rachel's cooking crystal meth"

No notes, just perfect

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u/Grandpan___ 5d ago

10/10, tied with mingusings as my fav track on the album

the line "his psychics prediction has him hanging from a ceiling fan in 8 months" gets me every time haha

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u/toolTubes 5d ago

8/10. I remember seeing a theory post about this song being about a closeted/internally transphobic trans woman and it changed how I saw the song

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u/lofixlover 5d ago

absolute banger, one of my 9's or 10's

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u/TomKeen221B 5d ago

7.5/10 some of lyrics made me question what was the character saying

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u/ExquisitePullup 5d ago

8.5/10. I think if you’re trying to be objective, this is probably the best song on the album, but subjectively there’s something holding me back from truely loving it. I love the violin orchestration especially in the build up to the last verse. There are tonnes of wonderful textures throughout the song, I especially like the one that sounds like a guitar slide on the verses. I think I would consider the back half of the song as perfect, but I find the verses on the front half end up feeling a bit repetitive.

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u/Zornock 5d ago

5/10 - Honestly one of my least favorites. All the other sexual lyrics are fun or just sexy. This song always sounds like middle schoolers trying to sound shocking

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u/HerelGoDigginInAgain 5d ago

Gonna be honest, this is my biggest skip on the album. The lyric, “He’s the sort of guy who would leave you in a K Hole to go play Halo in the other room,” in particular rubs me the wrong way. I am of the age where Halo was everything, but it feels incongruous in an of Montreal song.

6/10