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Artist:Elephant Island
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Album:Don't Say You Don't Know What You Want
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Track:Let's Applaud the Choreography
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Posts by Galen
Me and my songs!
The Burning Hell
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Artist:The Burning Hell
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Album:Happy Birthday
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Track:Dinosaurs
I played a show with this band last night. It was totally awesome for several reasons.1. Lots of people showed up!2. In addition to being charming and polite, The Burning Hell are also a tight, compelling and hillarious band.3. And it was awesome!They remind me of The Magnetic Fields. I like this song. I also liked the one they sang about being burried naked with a ukulele.
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How do they do it?
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Album:Footsteps In The Dark (Greatest Hits Vol. 2)
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Stevie Wonder is the king of this sort of thing, but Cat Stevens achieves a similar level of greatness with this shameless ode to just being yourself. I love this song and I don't care who knows it!
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Tramp Songs!
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Artist:Captain Peter "Teethless" Teeth
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Album:Famous Tramp Songs of the Bygone Era
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Track:Tramp Dancin' / Tramp Romancin'
This is a song I wrote for my friend Christopher's birthday. I was suddenly inspired by the two lines he sometimes sings from this fake musical show thing he has in his head. I find the results totally hilarious!I thought it would be fun if other people wrote famous tramp songs and we could have a real/fake compilation.
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all time favorite moment in jazz
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Album:Priceless Jazz Collection
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Okay! I don't listen to much jazz. I just don't. Hey, whatever. BUT! This song is so good! I could listen to all the jazz in the world and this would still top the top of the tops. It all happens at 2:09. Everything changes!I'm getting too excited.
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More Elis or Stereolab
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Artist:Elis Regina, Stereolab
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Track:Nada Sera Como Antes
Okay! The last 30 seconds of this song sound exactly like a Stereolab song. I don't know which one. But it's out there. They are the same song. Probably.Enjoy!
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This took a long time to find.
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Track:Romaria
Okay! I found this song Romaria, by Elis Regina! That's good, right, because I've been looking for it for about twelve years. That seems like a long time. I guess I wasn't looking that hard. I didn't even try to download it. Anyway!It is lovely. I've been singing this song with "Sara Marreiros":http://www.saramarreiros.com for about a year. It's great to hear the original. We are much more subdued
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Me again!
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Artist:Elephant Island, The Walkmen
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Album:Monument, Bows and Arrows
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Track:Nighttime
Okay! I'm following up on that last post. So we finished the album! That's good, right? We're very happy with it.Trying to find it a home on a label. Playing at New Music West in Vancouver on May 2. Fun! Here is a song. Hope you enjoy.There are more songs and some live tracks and photos at www.alohamedia.net/elephantislandIn other news, I listened to Bows and Arrows by the Walkmen last night. I...
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Nashville!
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Artist:Elephant Island, Andrew Bird, Richard Youngs
Okay! I just mailed the final Elephant Island mixes to Nashville for mastering this morning! I am exhausted and excited. Jim Demain at Yes Master is going to work on them. He did Andrew Bird's last album, which is truly great. You can hear a couple of the unmastered songs at www.myspace.com/elephantislandvictoria.I haven't had much time to listen to anything else lately, but this morning Richar...
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