#lucinda the brobecks

[chemicalarospec]

I've seen u mention Lucinda as an example of a trans brobecks song a few times :O I'm interested in your interpretation

Ooo thanks for asking!! It's not super deep but here it is! I think the song is meant to be about the singer being trapped in a relationship with this girl who won't leave him alone, named Lucinda. My interpretation is centered around changing "let me be, Lucinda" into "let me be Lucinda" -- note the comma --, so the song becomes about a trans woman named Lucinda who isn't being supported/allowed to come out.

A lot of the verses are about not changing and being unhappy with the way things are now, so it fits pretty well in my opinion! ex. "seasons change, but I'm not changing" and "I'm alive, but this ain't living." Some parts of it I also see as the narrator characterizing Lucinda as separate from themself, like "let me sleep, Lucinda" = kept up at night by gender thoughts, and "but she's not burning" = no matter what, Lucinda is still there inside of the narrator -- along with the previous line, "I still burn," others/the narrator themself are trying to "get Lucinda out" of them by hurting them, like "burn her out", but it's not working. "All I want/is to be/alone" might mean they only feel comfortable being themself alone -- perhaps wanting time to dress as a woman, as most of the other trans Brobecks songs involve crossdressing. Even "I'm a fool, but she's not foolin'" kinda works -- the narrator feels silly for wanting to be a woman, but thinks that everyone can see through them and knows they're trans.

[mayathexpsychic]

THEY ARE REAL!!!!! @ the slc main library. i did NOT steal them. they are still there :)

[half-doomed]

understanding the brobecks

Hfkshfd i have some rly mixed feelings about some of these so i wasnt sure where to rank  them (looking @ creep you out) :pensive:

1. The cowboy song

2. Lucinda

3. Downtown

4. Monday morning

5. John barnes

6. Didnt mean to

7. Creep you out

8. I'd be a punk

9. Why i dont smile

10. Sloppy seconds

11. Hey you

12. Good girls

[sledbeds]

Track 2 from The Brobecks first album The 4th Of JuLive (recorded live July 4th 2003 obvs) this album was lost to time for awhile until just recently when a previous member found an old burned cdr of the album and sent me the files. woo. this is also the only other version of Lucinda aside from the New Years Live performance of it

[tenmyoujump]

b listenin to “understanding the brobecks”, lucinda just came on and that song is so soft it makes me so happy and calm

[chemical-cobain]

you know what time it is?

it is ‘listen to lucinda by the brobecks and stare off into space’ o’clock :)

[schl3y]

THE BROBECKS MASTERPOST

so, in case anyone has an interest in the brobecks and needs a start/just wants to be able to find everything, here are all of the brobecks albums n songs n stuff! btw, songs with a ~ after them are ones dallon sung! there were two singers, dallon weekes & mike gross. they sound quite similar sometimes.

UNDERSTANDING THE BROBECKS / album cover

track 1 : good girls

track 2 : sloppy seconds 

track 3 : didn’t mean to ~

track 4 : hey you!

track 5 : i’d be a punk if my mom would let me / live ~

track 6 : lucinda*

track 7 : john barnes 

track 8 : monday morning

track 9 : cowboy song

track 10 : creep you out

track 11 : why i don’t smile ~

track 12 : downtown 

HAPPIEST NUCLEAR WINTER / album cover

track 1 : c’mon vietnam / live / live at hot topic ~

track 2 : better than me

track 3 :  everyone’s a jerk but me

track 4 : one minute of fun

track 5 : you stole my head 

track 6 : ollie ~

track 7 : a letter / live ~

track 8 : and shoot the sun

track 9 : boring ~

track 10 : file code #1459

track 11 : die alone / live ~

track 12 : she’s a robot

GOODNIGHT, AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW / album cover / alternate album cover

track 1 : bike ride ~

track 2 : west of california

track 3 : goodnight, socialite ~

track 4 : jacqui

track 5 : le velo pour deux ~

track 6 : you or a ghost? 

track 7 : i’m fine, really

track 8 : march #1

track 9 : break your arm ~

track 10 : city lights

track 11 : heartbreak or death

VIOLENT THINGS / album cover  / reissue album cover

track 1 : if you like it or not / my cover! ~

track 2 : small cuts / acoustic / live with the spill canvas and oh, be clever / my cover!  ~

track 3 : all of the drugs / live / acoustic / my cover! ~

track 4 : better than me / live / live at hot topic ~

track 5 : love at first sight / live at hot topic / live at a panic! show / airport edition / live idfk where but breezy’s there / my cover! ~

track 6 : visitation of the ghost / fancy studio version / live ~

track 7 : the nerve / live ~

track 8 : i will, tonight ~

track 9 : goodnight, socialite / live / live in riverdale / live at hot topic / acoustic ~

track 10 : bike ride / live ~

track 11 : le velo pour deux / live opening for fall out boy / live at the knitting factory ~

track 12 : second boys will be first choice / live with the spill canvas and oh, be clever / different version. there’s a name for it but i can’t remember or find it ~

track 13 : boring / live ~

I WILL, TONIGHT EP / album cover

track 1 : i will, tonight** ~

track 2 : second boys will be first choice** ~

track 3 : le velo pour deux** ~

track 4 : bike ride (acoustic) ~

track 5 : see you cry ~

SMALL CUTS EP / album cover

track 1 : i will, tonight ~

track 2 : don’t like you anymore ~

track 3 : small cuts ~

track 4 : visitation of the ghost ~

track 5 : boring (too fast/too furious version) ~

track 6 : if you like it or not ~

QUIET TITLE EP / album cover

track 1 : anyone i know / live ~

track 2 : cluster hug ~

OTHER BROBECKS SONGS

aeroplanes ~

christmas drag ~

DALLON’S OTHER STUFF

skid row (downtown) cover with brendon urie & ian crawford 

mean ol’ moon cover

teenage fbi cover

iggy pop cover

sickly sweet holidays / stream where he does this song & amelie comes in! / my cover!

please don’t jump (it’s christmas)

valentine

playing girls/girls/boys live at aguilar artist’s loft

singing let’s kill tonight live instead of brendon

dallon & brobecks merch

brobecks bandcamp

dallon bandcamp

brobecks youtube channel

dallon’s youtube channel

dallon’s twitter

dallon’s instagram

dallon’s facebook

* lucinda is a song i literally could not find anywhere. it’s not on the bandcamp, so we know mike sang it, and it’s not on youtube. sorryyyy :(

** these three songs weren’t available to play on the bandcamp?? so like idk what versions of the songs they were.

also there are 10/10 more live shows that they have played, i just got really tired of scrolling through the endless pages of results for searching up ‘the brobecks live’ on youtube. so if ya wanna see more, you can.

ok so quick edit haha i went back to put the full version of city lights onto this post because i found it months after making this, and i fucked the post up. it’s not drastic, but the song sleeping pills won’t show up, and heartbreak or death isn’t linked for some reason. im SO SORRY!!! you can find these songs on youtube by looking up their title & ‘the brobecks’ (obviously)!! enjoy them they’re really good songs :)

[chemicalarospec]

Mike Gross wrote such unbelievably queer songs for The Brobecks... Lucinda, Jacqui.... or maybe it's just me lmao, though there's also the more obvious crossdressing ones

[chemicalarospec]

obsessed with so many old Brobecks songs probably being written with transphobic intent, but in such a way that I can easily headcanon them as “trans songs” today

[chemicalarospec]

why do the Brobecks have so many very very trans songs

[chemicalarospec]

listening to my Not Trans playlist again and man those Brobeck songs really are having Gender.....