I love this song!

L O V E.

What are the others? I don't think I know the song you posted yesterday, can you believe it? I looked up the lyrics and I didn't recognize them, or the name.

How many are in three or four?

oooh, three or four!

*pounds self in head with hammer*

/pete puma

Three or Four is a really good song by The New Pornographers.

Sad thing is, songs like this (punchy quick songs about universal concepts) are a lost art. Today, things are all either too rote and cynical, too cute and ironic, or too overblown. "Hey Ya," was prolly the last song in the line of tunes like this, I guess.

*cries*

But jon that was just last year, I bet you a hot can of Schlitz there will be more.

i'm so glad you posted this before my memory space disappeared
and i needed jesus i was evil if i never said
but any more dick taters and i'm going pomme fritz

I love Hey Ya. It's also a kickass song to exercise to - there is no way you can't move when you hear it.

Last night I went to the bar and put some of my kinda music on: Elvis, Ramones, Dylan, The Who etc. and sat there drinkin' my beer and groovin' along. Then some yuppie shitbag put on like 20 dollars worth of new stuff. I was amazed at the lack of..momentum? soul? passion? in it. It was like fucking audio wallpaper.

*crawls off and dies*

Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't.
I blame the new math.

There's new math? Shit.

jonmc, it could have been worse, he could loaded it up with Ashleeeeeeee. Or wait, you probably don't drink in a bar where they have that shit on the juker.

When I worked at the agency my manager would always play a song called Peelin' Taters by Junior Brown to signal the end of the workweek. Its a silly song meant to break people out of their working modes. Hold on a second.

Here, goofy and not great music but it always makes me smile.

How do you like Bowie's version?

What was the audio wallpaper? Coldplay or something?

I want audio wallpaper in my house.

*Calls Brian Eno*

Bowie's version is good, brujita, and please don't take my criping about pretension in modern music to be a dismissal of all artistic ambition in rock. What guys like Bowie, Lennon, and even Pink Floyd had that today's ambitious musicians don't is 1)sincerity and 2) a solid grounding in and appreciation of music like this. I get the sense that most ambitious young musicians today hols stuff like this in contempt. I could be wrong.

What was the audio wallpaper? Coldplay or something?

Something like that. It was booooring.

*Brings Eno the phone, turns down 18 dials on giant tuning board, takes away ostrich feather cape*

Roxy bitches!

I dunno Jon, you're definitely correct in one sense, but the advantage your posted track and the artists you mentioned - Floyd Bowie Lennon - have is that they've all withstood the test of time. Newer artist don't have that advantage, and most will be filtered out and forgotten when given this test. This is true now and was true then. I hope I'm not simplifying your point too much...

I'd say your reasons have more to do with how pop culture has turned more commercial. So there are more "artists" lining up for that type of success. But to say artists today aren't sincere is a mistake I think. Maybe they're sincere about stuff you don't care about, or maybe the sincere ones aren't in the spotlight because they're eclipsed by people like Ashley or maybe the right artists aren't making their way to your ears. ? Or maybe you're right and rock is an overly flogged corpse that couldn't possibly be sincere anymore...

I'm not a big Foetus fan, but I love Jim Thirwell's take on writing music - write every song as if it were the last thing you did before you die (I'm paraphrasing). Sam Phillips had a similar rule in the Johnny Cash movie. If more artists followed this simple rule, oh man, the world would be rid of so much bullshit, and that yuppie would crawl off and die, instead of you.


Anyone else ever find themselves thinking: I wonder what Bowie (or whoever) thinks of Aphex Twin (or whoever)? Maybe it's trite, but I wish there was a publication or site that focused on these kind of questions. Like when Hit Parader used to play records for metal dudes and asked them to comment on them? I loved that. The Wire does it still, but I just can't read that much anymore.

The Easybeats' rhythm guitarist was the big brother (George, right?) of the brothers Young from AC/DC.