Just called to say hello, and that I love you so

Kind of a quirky song for ya'. This is the band Ima Robot, I just recently heard about them. The song I heard was "Hello I Love You." I instantly had visions of The Doors classic of the same name. However I soon learned the similarities end at the title. The lyrics are kind of cute in the same way I love the cuteness of songs like "I'm Sticking With You" by The Velvet Underground.


The premise of the song is that frontman Alex Ebert (also of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Ima Robot was one of his first bands along with The Lucky 13's) is calling a girl and leaving a rather lengthly proffession of love on her answering machine. Ebert drops line after line to the girl, one of my favorites is this gem: "So get back to whatever it is your doin' that's so cool. I'll get back to kicking rocks down by the highschool." I'm not really sure what it is but this song just gets me.

I don't really have too much of an insight on it, so I won't keep ya'll hanging around. Enjoy!

"Hello I Love You" by Ima Robot from Search and Destroy (2006)

-S