Music

Has anyone ever heard of a band called “The Mountain Goats?”

They are the shit. Melancholy and funny and fucking great.

If you haven’t heard them yet, purchase two CD’s. Tallahasee and All Hail West Texas.

Really, i’m not fucking around here. Go. Buy. Enjoy.

“When you punish a person for dreaming his dreams, don’t expect him to thank or forgive you. The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you … Hail satan.” - The Mountain Goats, The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton

Hello, all.

So I’m chalking my pool cue, and I says to Holly, I says, “Top 5 Juke Box Tunes: Go!”

She leans back on her feat, smiles delightedly, and says…

That’s your prompt. Work it out. For inspiration, here are some lyrics.

Juke Box Music

by The Kinks

There’s a lady plays her fav’rite records
On the jukebox ev’ry day.
All day long she plays the same old songs,
And she believes the things that they say.

Other ladies like to prance around
And flirt and dance the whole night through,
But she just sits and listens to her juke box records,
‘Cause that’s all that she wants to do.

She sings along with all the saddest songs,
And she believes the stories are real.
She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.

It’s only juke box music,
Only juke box music….

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13audience-t.html?pagewanted=all

Sunday April 8 at the Granasty the quality band Galactic will play. They will also be at Waka, so if you want to start your jam a little early this year go see them. Preview at: www.galacticfunk.com So as not to be too Lawrence-centric I should note that they’ll be in Minneapolis April 11 (though I don’t think Ms. Minneapolis would love them), in Denver on April 6th at the Ogden Theater, and not in California.

Is it windows-down, radio-cranked weather there yet? What will be in heavy rotation on your stereo? In other words (Modest Mouse’s words): “Evil home stereo, what good songs do you know?” And does anyone have their new disc yet? Mine’s on the way, but the reviews have been sour…