So, what are you listening to?
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Haven't heard this one in years, but it came up randomly while I was torturing Ben with bad music this past weekend.
Lyrics:
This is a sad fucking song
We'll be lucky if I don't bust out cryingHow does it feel?
Your night light, your curling iron
Lit up by the sweat of others
For many's the day
But not from November to MayThe floor is littered
With woodchips and apple cores
And hulls of acorns
There is a chattering soundBecause they were squirrels; real squirrels
(And there were thousands)
This isn't some kind of metaphor
Goddamn, this is realIn an interview with Robert Becraft for F News Magazine, Steve Albini said:
The Squirrel Song is basically just a short story. It’s just about this guy who becomes suspicious of the power of the distribution grid and he wants to separate himself from it, so he builds a squirrel-powered generating plant so that way he can be self-sufficient. The problem is, of course, he has all these squirrels, and he then has to tend all the squirrels, and it takes up all his time. And they only really generate enough power to keep the lights on in the squirrel house. Even then, they hibernate all winter. Also, this dude has invented this boogie man [in] the power grid, [and] he decides to sidestep it by building a squirrel power plant that ends up totally consuming his life – and it doesn’t accomplish what he wants it to.
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the lyrics are poetic and the story is hilarious and creative.
but that is some awful noise in my ear
Dan
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the lyrics are poetic and the story is hilarious and creative.
but that is some awful noise in my ear
That's Steve Albini for you. He's a quite the character.
The dissonance seems appropriate for a song about someone who's created a boogie man, and then gone through a lot of pain and suffering to avoid it, only to realize later that the problem they're trying to solve never existed in the first place. Plus there's squirrels which adds a sarcastic kind of comedy to it. Not exactly uplifting, but that's life sometimes.
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buddy showed me Greta Van Fleet last night. if you like Zeppelin, you will like them.
Dan
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i've been driving e30s for over a decade and when I drive mine I still grin like a fricken teenager who's just touched his first pair of boobs.
i wish my second car could also be an e30.
if you could snort e30s, I would.
long live e30s.
This is how I imagine @straight6pwr driving his car, complete with more than a couple double entendre.
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oh how i wish the snow was gone right now so i could respond properly to that
Dan
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I used to work with a guy that listened to MSI all the time... not a fan, but it seems topical.
Damn! I havent heard of these guys in quite some years! thaks for this!
https://www.instagram.com/_jdesigner_/ http://nevertoolow.tumblr.com/
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This whole album is fantastic
This guy:
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Dwight Yoakam - Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room
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The Scientist by Coldplay.
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