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July 15, 2005
Swear to someone with a paperweight, I did not steal this one
the Wet Secrets - Boat Gas Death Train
OK, let me confess that I did in fact steal this song from Razorblade Runner (Rollie, to be specific), but I also think it deserves some wider different exposure. Plus I kinda like the idea of mp3blog re-runs. Come to think of it, I'm surprised no one has done that yet, i.e. established a site that does nothing but post the 'greatest hits' of other mp3blogs. Not like an aggregator. That's not what I mean. More like mining the old prose classics of blogs like Said the Gramophone or Fluxblog (whose archival blog would no doubt be named "Refluxblog", and if there were any justice in the world, would somehow have a GERD theme), and re-posting the original commentary and music file, perhaps along with additional commentary on the original itself (it'd be like finding really bizarre marginalia in a library book). On the other hand, that would probably be just a little too meta and cutesy to take. My wild dream of ouroborotic mp3blogs will have to wait until some sort of saturation point is reached. Or until someone is bored enough to actually entertain this idea.
'Boat Gas Death Train' is a function with a domain of {distortion} and a range of {organ}. There is absurdity hanging off of every radial arm of this thing (optional image: prehensile tinsel strands [pink] dangling from a plastic Christmas wreath), especially when it comes to the lyrics. Rollie said vocal style = J. Casablancas, and that is true, but it is also equally Nicholas Diamonds (you know, Unicorns, Islands), with a voice hidden behind a dressing screen of static and fuzz. Another quality this song shares with the music of those bands: it is virally catchy. If this song were in the public domain, I would use it in my forthcoming and imaginary television commercial for the product "Go-Yo" (Mayonnaise On the GO!!), have it play over a montage of people dressed in business casual attire furiously and discreetly squirting small tubes of mayonnaise into their mouths. The Wet Secrets indeed.
You can purchase the Wet Secrets' album, "Whale of a Cow" (which they apparently wrote in a single week- that is to say, the week that they initially formed) by emailing Blackbyrd Myoozik.
Thanks to Matt for posting for me yesterday, that was a great entry. Hopefully he'll be doing that more often in the future (if negotiations go well).
Posted by Kevin at July 15, 2005 01:45 AM
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