Things posted in February, 2008
Originally self-released under “Ibid Records” and later by XL Recordings, “The Loon” somehow sounds like a genuine indie-rock album. Having Pavement as main influence, this band from Minnesota has good vocals, Josh Grier, and nice tunes keeping the album solid all along the way.
Track listing:
- “Just Drums”
- “The Illiad”
- “Insistor”
- “Crazy Eights”
- “In Houston”
- “Manitoba”
- “Cowbell”
- “10 Gallon Ascots”
- “Omaha”
- “Buckle”
- “Jakov’s Suite”
Year: 2005
Label: Ibid Records, XL Recordings
My track selection: “Insistor”, “Cowbell” and “Buckle”.
The videos from the two singles, “Insistor” and “Cowbell”:
Links:
Tapes’n Tapes [official]
Tapes’n Tapes – “The Loon” [wikipedia]
Helsinki, Finland… February… +3°… I was expecting -20° and polar bears in the streets… disappointed!!
“Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It’s the country for me.
You’re so near to Russia,
So far from Japan,
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.
You’re so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.
Finland has it all.”
Composer: Michael Palin
Author: Michael Palin
Arranger: John Du Prez
Lead Singer: Michael Palin
“Work” of finnish supermarket employees during Christmas,
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
Richard Stallman (Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:37:06 -0500)
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