Time for me to read too much into music as art. Those of you not familiar, here are some links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoH5MPIgM7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfxFSYBq6ho - I couldn't find the mini-album version, so here's a pretty true to form live one
First, an eery guitar motif is present in both. Obviously, the punkier Idlewild version is more aggressive than the passive and creepy Slint edition.
Slint's song is about how images haunt a sea captain who has survived a shipwreck, and similar human images appear in Idlewild's, with the line "This is my idea for captain - a girl in a flower dress". The paranoia of Slint's captain is also repeated in "Captain", with lines such as "You scramble my words!" and "I'd rather that these are not my words".
What I'm noting here is that Idlewild's song seems to be based at least subconsciously on the Slint predecessor. It focuses on the same sense of lonely derangedness that "Good Morning, Captain" does.
As a student of the humanities, it is my job to take things too far, and here I have taken Roddy Woomble's statement that he used to listen to Slint and used it to create a connection from his song to a song of the latter.
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