I couldn't see in feets

three French songs
Dieu que c'est beau
Gaby oh! Gaby
Un autre monde

Throw Your Head Violently Now, To My Fist

Prom night:
Jeremy Jay – Will You Dance With Me? (Slow Dance And Love Everlasting EP, 2009)

Earnest successor to Elliot Smith, whom I love dearly:
Beerjacket – Drum (Animosity, 2009)

Scottish emos upset at girls having fun:
Twin Atlantic – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper cover)

Pomp, Pageantry and Public Space

The infantry stands, and holds out its hands. Bells are going to ring. Birds are going to sing! And all the people from the village will be there to congratulate us.

Pop music creates community through mass intimacy: to everyone, the same private feeling behind her own closed door. It's no wonder that there aren't more songs about grand public moments. Here are three.

Pencil Rain - They Might Be Giants

The Crowning - A Camp

A Wedding in Cherokee County - Randy Newman

Our houses will crumble, the city will fall. The thunderous clatter of splintering wood and lives that are claimed. Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?

All songs MP3@254kbps.

And Nothing Else Matters

now that it's september...

i must say i'm surprised, albeit pleasantly, to be the first person to post the best song/video release of 2009: YouTube - Shakira - She Wolf pretty much everything about it is perfect. the title, the kylie/annie-like beat, the hyper literal lyrics (a direct translation from the spanish version?), the crazy dance moves (shoulder shimmy), the bodysuit, and of course, the howl.

i'm pretty sure i entirely missed the boat the first time around with this band, but their songs have been stuck in my head since i first heard the album, so here goes: YouTube - Vampire Weekend VS Miike Snow - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance (this remix gives me a chance to introduce miike snow as well)

and, in honor of the brendan's 30th, and the first annual sunset to sunrise marathon: YouTube - Walking In L.A.

How Did I Become So Obnoxious?

People,

We are all living in a psychological war.

Wait that's just in the song, I don't mean it. What I was meaning to say is that, by popular demand, three is once again the magic number. I disavow any knowledge of posting more than three songs, and of any connection, expressed or implied, to Andrew Simperingham. The one part of my previous ramblings that I would like to enshrine in ComeInThrees law is that one does not need to post all of those three songs at once. i.e. no more than three songs per month is the only rule. Simple? ComeInThrees purists are of course encouraged to continue posting all three songs in a single post, as the name implies.

Now we're down to business. I only get two songs as I posted one earlier in August.

P!nk - Please Don't Leave Me

I certainly never anticipated posting a song by P!nk to this blog, or by anyone else with an explanation mark [sic] in their name for that matter. Partly I have to admit being inspired a little bit by the AMAZING songs of Dunc's previous post. But mostly it was another driving-and-listening-to-the-radio moment (cf. The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time), driving to Santa Cruz in fact, and hold the phone - who the f*ck is singing this one? The most genuine amalgam of country music and pure pop that I've heard ... since maybe Bonnie Tyler or something. And proof of how long and strong Country's octopus arms are at sneakily getting fingers into the pie of pop music, at least of the American kind. Reminds me less of P!nk's contemporaries than artists like the already mentioned Bonnie, Dolly Parton, and even Mary Gauthier. (dammit i was gonna post a link to the song "That Way" by Ms. Gauthier but apparently it's disappeared from the YouTube. Anyways, check her out if you get the chance, phenomenal).

Neil Young - Natural Beauty

"...into an anonymous wall of digital sound"

YOU CAN'T F*CK WITH A LYRIC LIKE THAT!

'nuff said, except for the other part I especially love, where there's some kind of metaphor comparing an action replay of the "moment of defeat, play[ed] back over on the video screen" (this cat has a real thing for video screens/flat screen TVs, wicked), of presumably a bucking bronco rider at the rodeo getting thrown from his horse, with the moments of defeat in his own life, and consequent reflections from the video screen "somewhere deep inside [his] soul".

At least that's how I read it.

brand new Chevrolet

brand new pair of seamless pants

Fade out into crowd noise into nature noise LOVE IT!