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Danielson – Did I Step on Your Trumpet?

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQ3kZRyTug

Danielson (or, rather, the act of listening to music by the Danielson Famile) can occasionally feel like a "weird for its own sake" thing. The dude sings in this weird, awkward, squeaky falsetto, and the lyrics often seem childish on the surface. He often wears a nine foot tall tree costume on stage. There's a lot of depth here, though.

Daniel sings Christian music, but his style is so... different that the mainstream Christian music market has pretty much entirely forsaken him (I recall back in the day, a Christian radio station I listened to called one of his songs the worst song they had ever heard). Then again, Sufjan Stevens has been an on again, off again member of the collective for a long time now, so I guess he must be doing something right.

He was the subject of an occasionally interesting documentary a few years ago, appropriately called Danielson: A Family Movie.

I am expecting divisive opinions regarding this song.

4 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 104 votes, average: 5.25 out of 10 (4 votes, average: 5.25 out of 10)
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mewithoutYou – In a Sweater Poorly Knit

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apvKxyR6Vzs

Skip to 50 seconds to avoid babble.

mewithoutYou are a fairly different sort of band, and this is a different sort of video. Accordions, harps, and dancing white dudes are prevalent here, and the song itself sort of eschews their usual aesthetic, which was originally a sort of abrasive, lyrical post-hardcore sound. Aaron Weiss is one of my favorite lyricists, and the album which this song appears on (Brother, Sister) is one of my "desert island" albums.

Lord, those dancing people are obnoxious. I enjoy this performance of the song, though, so this is what you get.

5 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 105 votes, average: 8.20 out of 10 (5 votes, average: 8.20 out of 10)
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Kye Kye – Honest Affection

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuYpnEk-ik

Oh, hi. It's my week already? Why didn't someone warn me?

Anyway, I'll start off the week with the stripped down version of what has become by far the most played song of the summer for me. It doesn't quite have the inertia of the original, but it's pretty nice, in its own right.

The album is full of stuff that sounds kind of like CHVRCHES mixed with a more atmospheric M83. "Honest Affection" isn't necessarily representative of the whole of it, but both the single and the album are quite good.

4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 104 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10 (4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)
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Friday Music Day

FMD: Jan20, 2012

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I should probably shut up about Lana Del Rey, but after her awful SNL performance last week, I went through the comments sections of several websites to read people's thoughts. (I was really hoping to find a writer at Pitchfork or somewhere similiar to have a thoughtful take on it rather than comments, but no dice.)

I was surprised to see that some people were taking a face-value reading of the lyrics of "Video Games":

I'm in his favorite sundress, Watching me get undressed, take that body downtown
I say you the bestest, Lean in for a big kiss, Put his favorite perfume on
Go play a video game
It's you, it's you, it's all for you...

With her flat, dispassionate delivery, I thought this was an ironic song, talking about her dedication to a boyfriend who isn't showing that much interest in her. Like she's realizing that there's nothing there. (Kindof like a reversal of Lydia Loveless's "More Like Them". [Man have I got my obsessions, I should really try to think about other artists from time to time.]) But several commenters made it sound like this was a devoted love song.

However, if I don't pay attention to comments on news or baseball sites, why should what a few comments on music sites carry any weight with me. Mostly, I was just surprised that people would get a different interpretation from this song: I thought it was pretty clear, and my levels of obsession led me to write these two hundred words on it.

Finally: this is probably just for Nibbish, who seems to be the only other person here who digs her music as much as I do.

Let the Random Ten Rumpus begin!