bop of the century
people weren’t lying when they said it was 20gayteen
this Tongue by MNEK just so ya’ll know and can go listen to all of his stuff cause it’s all amazing.
Tag: music
there’s definitely an alternate-universe version of me whose favorite band is the new pornographers, and i think that version of me is ultimately the worse for it in many ways but also probably has a much less repressed reaction to the desire to just post “my rights versus yours” over and over
tacky but true: i still have real prolonged intense & specific human emotions about yo la tengo’s “you can have it all”
She had a name, she had a spirit
She had a line in the play if you waited to hear it
But a master of disguises
Her demise was her design, they said
Was it the mending of the gown
Or the running, and the running, and the running it around?
She said, “My name and my spirit are both corrupt
And if you hold me close, you gotta hold me up!”
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8. Song for the Julian Calendar
Otherworldly. The guitar part on this is like no other Mountain Goats song. The best description I can think of is that it sparkles.
I heard the firecrackers popping next door
Wondered what it was I bargained for
When I lay quiet on the floor
And you were knocking
And you were knocking
the evolution of the peach plum pear outro; last week i posted two versions of one song and this week i’m posting three versions of one part of one song. in the spirit of inquiry, i also tried making an overlaid version, but some experiments fail, folks.
walnut whales (2002) / milk-eyed mender (2004) / live in paris (2010)
Dirby woke us up at 8 AM with another impromptu ukulele serenade. this little one brings so much happiness.
I’ve been catching up on NPR’s Ask Me Another and came across this glorious episode featuring John Darnielle, who participates in a quiz and then plays this intense version of The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, capped off by an hilarious quip by Jonathan Coulton.
This is maybe the best live version of this song I’ve ever heard, with some lyrical substitution and asides, and JD singing in his urgent upper register almost the whole song
must a sport be entertaining to watch? 