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The current batch of mix cds are all sewn up. It's a shame, really, when one considers that this popped into my head tonight. It's such a beaut, really, a song worth of creating an entire mix cd around.This, if memory serves, is one of the first songs from Ugly Beautiful to catch my ears. The line, "have you ever wanted to kill a screaming child" is the kind of thing that makes me abandon whatever it is I should happen to be doing, look around to make sure no one is watching, and smile. Then later on, when the immediate pleasures of infanticide pass, lines like, "Have you ever sat down and started to smile, at the old man who got up & danced his way for a good course to France" start to make me smile the empathetic smile. It is only later still that the verse, "I've got no one to blame except myself and that's selfish" makes me smile the wry smile of semantic satisfaction."Noun 1. kiss curl - a spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek":http://www.thefreedictionary.com/kiss+curlPossibly worthy of note is the fact that this little number is available only on the American version of Ugly Beautiful, the UK version instead includes a wonderful song called King Bing. Both songs are essential Babybird, making this one of those rare times when owning both the import and domestic versions of an album just makes good sense.Hear king bing in comments, if you dare.
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  1. brand X
    brand X says King Bing: .
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  2. asrati
    asrati says Indeed. I define the "First Time Babybird Effect" as asking oneself "Wait.... um... Did he really just say what I think he said?" My first two Babybird songs, for the record, were "Bad Old Man" and "Back Together". Fully loaded, ticking timebombs, and as good as any of his tracks I've heard since. Also for the record: I may never have gotten into Babybird if Johnny Depp had not done so first. I got a second-hand mix tape from one of Johnny's assistants containing those two songs. (And some pretty good other songs, too! Johnny's cool!)
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  3. brand X
    brand X says You do, in fact, bring up both the perfect distillation of the Babybird experience and some damn fine examples of said. For my money "There's Something Going On" is Babybird at peak form. And what better way to open an album than with "Bad Old Man." Regarding "Back Together," the line, "I'll never get you back so you'll never be sad" just absolutely fucking kills me every time I hear it. Not that every other line in the song isn't just as fucking amazing. Seriously, the songs a heartbreaker. Lyrics from both of those song feature prominently in old notebooks, the ones I used for school, the ones I wrote in while pretending to listen to stuffy old history professors talk about stuffy old wars and stuffy dead men.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  4. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says I just fell victim to the "First Time" effect. King Bing is pretty trippy. Care to post any more in the comments for me? Nice Post
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  5. brand X
    brand X says Well Dzendvokh, (why do I suddenly feel like Anthony Burgess?) beyond clicking on the artist tag at the top of this post, which has myriad samples, I am so much more than happy to add some songs to this thread. I'll be putting up "back together" and "bad old man" tout de suite, right heres afters this comments.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  6. brand X
    brand X says . . . ~iEp44fwZvNX.mp3~ ~49FeEMHExSv.mp3~ and anther version of back together with visual accompaniment:
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  7. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says Yeah, I guess I coulda done that huh? Well thanks for the ones here. You weren't kidding about Yoakam and Babybird posts.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  8. brand X
    brand X says My response wasn't meant to be nearly as snide as it may have come across, Dzendvokh. Sometimes, hell even often, my sincerity is so laden with corndogerry that it comes across as sarcasm when, in fact, it is sincerity. And yes, Babybird and Dwight Yoakam are truly obsessions of mine. parenthetic somewhere :
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  9. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says No worries man, I didn't take it that way.
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  10. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says What's up with the Thriller video?, seems pretty random, but strangely, it fits in places.
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  11. brand X
    brand X says so funny you should ask as I just send an email to a youtuber who asked the same question. It read much like the following: you said: "Thanks for posting the song. What's up with the Thriller video? A lousy combination." perhaps true, but the running time is just about right... Here's the deal. A friend and I decided that it would be the bee's knees to lay Babybird songs over videos from songs that aren't so good. We consider it to be the equivalent of taking a Poison cassette, putting some scotch tape on top and recording something good right over it; it may say "Open Up and Say Ahhhh," but it plays "There's Something Going On." A repurposing, so to speak. Needless to say, the recipient of said message was not convinced. For completionist's sake, lets just say he said something like this: Well, you could do that or at least put a photo montage of Babybird in lieu of an accompanying video for the posted song. In the case of Thriller and King Bing, it lessens the experience of listening to King Bing. It's like drinking a fine wine from a paper cup! For what it's worth, the aforementioned friend may not have actually thought the whole thing was actually a good idea, but either way he managed to convince me that it was. To go even further, the impetus for said friends comments was this:
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  12. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says It definitely makes for a different experience, especially for a first time listen. Because not only are you trying to take in the lyrics, but your mind is trying to make connections with what is visually going on too, and as our minds I think have a natural proclivity to make connections, inevitably there will be correspondences. I don't think it altogether fails, it's at the very least interesting. I have a cousin who was into that kind of thing "Synchronicity":http://www.synchronicityarkive.com/ Inspired by the Dark Side and Wizard of Ozz thing, they take movies and attempt to synch them up with different music, sometimes with subtle changes to the movie, sometimes just letting the movie play in its original. He came up with things like "Citizen Metalikane"- You can guess the two used there, and "Jesus Who?" A compilation of Jesus movies put to the Who. He went by the name Whytless Physh. I guess there's a whole group of people who do this thing.
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  13. brand X
    brand X says That's an interesting thing your cousin is working on, I look forward to inspecting the site more deeply in the future. There was a time in the past when there was no mog player, so the default method of posting samples 'round the mogosphere was through youtube videos. I got into the habit of hitting play on the video and flipping over to another tab in the browser so I could hear the song while my eyes were doing things other than watching the attached video. It turned out that quite a lot of the songs I wanted to share were not represented on youtube, so I just started taking video from other youtube clips and replacing the audio with the songs I wanted to share in my mog posts. Once the mog player came along, there pretty much ceased to be any point in doing it anymore, so mostly I don't do it anymore. Somewhere along the line I put 45 & Fat over Meatloaf, the aforementioned friend saw it, etc... So, basically, in the youtube clips I put up, the video is just there because youtube clips must have video; it's just a vessel.
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  14. poebegone
    poebegone says i dig this post from title to King Bing, which is to say entirely. makes me think of murder ballads, like the ones by oh-who-else-but Nick Cave: "But the little children know they listen to the beating of their blood."
    Permalink posted 11/02/2007

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