Kimya Dawson can sing "I can spoon a guy and still be his friend" with no abashment. It's almost as if she was never taught what's indecent. Sometimes that's what makes her so unique. Although given a simultaneous release, this solo entry (the more pensive and respectable of the two) was recorded a year-and-a-half after Knock-Knock Who?. Unlike the lush arrangements on her counterpart Adam Green's Friends of Mine, Dawson is content with lo-fi anti-folk. She's cute and lewd, sometimes within the same song, making clever pop culture and New York City references within her quick-witted rhymes. Sesame Street meets Ani DiFranco and Bob Dylan on shy songs such as opener "Chemistry," while Dawson even has a little girl to sing backup vocals on "Everything's Alright." Rarely does she add anything else, aside from something such as a twinkling toy piano in "Will You Be Me?" Whether she's expressing suppressed memories or feelings about relationships, there's plenty of leftover childhood angst. And that makes for something unyieldingly genuine.
Working on a mixtape for a SuperBowl pregame party. I searched my itunes for terms like "Giants, Football, Beer, Chips" and came up pretty dry (other than tune posted here - The Beer Not quite the theme I was going for with lyrics such as "He came home on acid I was holding his shotgun I was dressed like Tina Turner in beyond thunder dome He said don't shoot, I said I won't I love you you're my...
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This, a gentle song about living in a climate of fear, is one of the oddest songs on the Body of War cd. I hadn't planned to post it, but I thought the song I wanted to post Immortal Technique's "The 4th Branch" might be too hard-edged and might offend everyone and get me booted off the MOG or worse. Score one for (self) censorship.
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| 1 Chemistry |
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| 2 Velvet Rabbit |
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| 3 Hadlock Padlock |
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| 4 Being Cool |
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| 5 Anthrax |
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| 6 The Beer |
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| 7 Will You Be Me? |
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| 8 Everything's Alright |
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| 9 For Katie |
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