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This time, I have four music-related issues to address, plus a quiz result. So here we go.
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obsessical sent me some more songs by Rilo Kiley. They're pretty cool, actually. The music is catchy, and the lead singer has an interesting quality to her voice. I think I should make an effort to get into some new bands ("new" in terms of my familiarity with them, not how long they've been around, that is).
2. Moving to a band that isn't new in either of those respects, the second podcast by They Might Be Giants isn't as good as the first one. "Why Did You Grow A Beard?" is pretty cool, but nowhere near as creative as the thing about turtles of North America or John Linnell's reworked version of "A Very Good Year." I'd already heard the other stuff on there. It's cool that they're airing some of the lesser known Venue Songs in the podcasts, since I'm sure not everyone has heard them yet, but I really don't need to hear live versions of "Fingertips" and "Robot Parade" again. I've heard those so many times that I'm starting to lose my fondness for them. I do like "Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire," and I can't help being curious about the "get along home, left-wingers" song that plays in the background at one point. I guess it's some old song that they dug up and put in the podcast, but I'd be interested in knowing the original context. Finally, I think it's weird that the narrator (who sounds to me like John Flansburgh, but there's some debate on this point) pronounces the name of the S-E-X-X-Y EP as "sexy," rather than saying each letter individually. Maybe he just didn't want to take the extra time. {g}
3. Someone on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
thedisappointed linked to this page of XTC videos. I'd never seen any of their videos except part of "Mayor Of Simpleton" (which isn't up there), so it was cool to see them. Watching young Andy Partridge make faces into the camera in "This Is Pop" is really crazy.
4. I was looking up a CD called "The Art of the Balalaika" in OCLC, and one of the results I got was Camper Van Beethoven's Cigarettes and Carrot Juice. I guess because it includes songs called "Balalaika Gap" and "(We Workers Do Not Understand) Modern Art." That's pretty weird.
( And here's the quiz result. )
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obsessical sent me some more songs by Rilo Kiley. They're pretty cool, actually. The music is catchy, and the lead singer has an interesting quality to her voice. I think I should make an effort to get into some new bands ("new" in terms of my familiarity with them, not how long they've been around, that is).2. Moving to a band that isn't new in either of those respects, the second podcast by They Might Be Giants isn't as good as the first one. "Why Did You Grow A Beard?" is pretty cool, but nowhere near as creative as the thing about turtles of North America or John Linnell's reworked version of "A Very Good Year." I'd already heard the other stuff on there. It's cool that they're airing some of the lesser known Venue Songs in the podcasts, since I'm sure not everyone has heard them yet, but I really don't need to hear live versions of "Fingertips" and "Robot Parade" again. I've heard those so many times that I'm starting to lose my fondness for them. I do like "Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire," and I can't help being curious about the "get along home, left-wingers" song that plays in the background at one point. I guess it's some old song that they dug up and put in the podcast, but I'd be interested in knowing the original context. Finally, I think it's weird that the narrator (who sounds to me like John Flansburgh, but there's some debate on this point) pronounces the name of the S-E-X-X-Y EP as "sexy," rather than saying each letter individually. Maybe he just didn't want to take the extra time. {g}
3. Someone on
thedisappointed linked to this page of XTC videos. I'd never seen any of their videos except part of "Mayor Of Simpleton" (which isn't up there), so it was cool to see them. Watching young Andy Partridge make faces into the camera in "This Is Pop" is really crazy.4. I was looking up a CD called "The Art of the Balalaika" in OCLC, and one of the results I got was Camper Van Beethoven's Cigarettes and Carrot Juice. I guess because it includes songs called "Balalaika Gap" and "(We Workers Do Not Understand) Modern Art." That's pretty weird.
( And here's the quiz result. )
