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SO WHAT have I been listening to? Thanks for asking. Let me tell you. I've been listening to pretty damn strange assortment of stuff.
Dan Deacon's album is kind of out there, but I wouldn't have thought the most accessible song would be the one containing 4 minutes of continuous Woody Woodpecker laughing. "Woody Woodpecker" contains the titular cartoon laughing at full speed and simultaneously at half speed.
Dan Deacon still reminds of that girl's idiot DJ roommate in "Nathan Barley."
The first time I breezed through The Postmarks' easy listening debut album, it didn't make much of an impression on me, like a lot of albums, even some of my favorites. But now I've been going through my unrated 2007 songs on iTunes, and "Goodbye" came up. The production is just gorgeous. I don't know who did it, but it manages to keep a soft retro tone without being stupid or tongue-in-cheek at all. They remind me of a less rocking version of my favorite band last year, The Essex Green. "Goodbye" has a guitar, bass, flute, violins, and these perfect trumpet flourishes. Although in the last 30 seconds there's a sound in the right speaker that sounds almost exactly like my alarm clock, which gives me that morning alarm dread every time I hear it and ruins the song for me.
If you're like me, and I'm sure you are, then when you bought the Ren & Stimpy album You Eeediot! back in 1993, you were disappointed at the scarcity of songs featured in the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, and the prevalence of M.O.R. jazz. It reminds me of another certain cartoon character-inspired recording. (Garfield, I'm looking at you!) The album did have "Happy Happy, Joy Joy," "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen," and "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence," but it just could've been so much better if it had included, say, "The Lord Loves A'Hangin'" my personal favorite. Also, if you're like me, you had no idea Ren & Stimpy also released a Christmas album! That's right! A Ren & Stimpy Christmas album, or should I say, Yaksmas album, as that's the fictional holiday this odd record revolves around.
I downloaded this album, and I'm not afraid to say it, because really, where are you going to actually find and pay for the Ren & Stimpy Christmas album nowadays? I bought into Stimpy's exhortation to "put on a hat made of garbage and go Yaksmas caroling," and we were off. "Jingle Bells" becomes "Cat Hairballs," "Deck The Halls" becomes "Fleck The Walls," and Ren & Stimpy sing a carol to a man who wants chest hair in "We Wish You A Hairy Chestwig." It's so utterly fucking stupid and 5th grade in its humor, it's great.
In "It's A Wizzleteats Kind of Christmas," R&S visit one of those characters who they really should have explored more: Stinky Wizzleteats. You know him as the singer/songwriter behind "Happy Happy, Joy Joy," but did you also know he's the Santa Claus figure of Yaksmas? Anyway, Stinky's wife answers the door and tells him there are two urchins outside to see him. Stinky, in his inimitable way, says, "Urchins?? What are urchins? Some kinda new-fangled dog? Is that what you are, some kinda dog? Well then, you better bark like a dog!" They do a Yaksmas carol, and then Stinky breaks out into a folksy children's song..
Ooooh, a big wooden chicken lived in the bushBig fat bush, full of wormsThe big fat worms ate the chickenAnd they all died the next day
Which got me to thinking, why isn't there a Stinky Wizzleteats album?? I'm imagining an almost Pete Seeger parody album, a record of children's songs where only half the lyrics make any sense. Hell, they've already got "Happy Happy, Joy Joy." I would be all over a full version of "Big Wooden Chicken" and the accompanying album.
Dan Deacon's album is kind of out there, but I wouldn't have thought the most accessible song would be the one containing 4 minutes of continuous Woody Woodpecker laughing. "Woody Woodpecker" contains the titular cartoon laughing at full speed and simultaneously at half speed.
Dan Deacon still reminds of that girl's idiot DJ roommate in "Nathan Barley."
The first time I breezed through The Postmarks' easy listening debut album, it didn't make much of an impression on me, like a lot of albums, even some of my favorites. But now I've been going through my unrated 2007 songs on iTunes, and "Goodbye" came up. The production is just gorgeous. I don't know who did it, but it manages to keep a soft retro tone without being stupid or tongue-in-cheek at all. They remind me of a less rocking version of my favorite band last year, The Essex Green. "Goodbye" has a guitar, bass, flute, violins, and these perfect trumpet flourishes. Although in the last 30 seconds there's a sound in the right speaker that sounds almost exactly like my alarm clock, which gives me that morning alarm dread every time I hear it and ruins the song for me.
If you're like me, and I'm sure you are, then when you bought the Ren & Stimpy album You Eeediot! back in 1993, you were disappointed at the scarcity of songs featured in the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, and the prevalence of M.O.R. jazz. It reminds me of another certain cartoon character-inspired recording. (Garfield, I'm looking at you!) The album did have "Happy Happy, Joy Joy," "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen," and "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence," but it just could've been so much better if it had included, say, "The Lord Loves A'Hangin'" my personal favorite. Also, if you're like me, you had no idea Ren & Stimpy also released a Christmas album! That's right! A Ren & Stimpy Christmas album, or should I say, Yaksmas album, as that's the fictional holiday this odd record revolves around.
I downloaded this album, and I'm not afraid to say it, because really, where are you going to actually find and pay for the Ren & Stimpy Christmas album nowadays? I bought into Stimpy's exhortation to "put on a hat made of garbage and go Yaksmas caroling," and we were off. "Jingle Bells" becomes "Cat Hairballs," "Deck The Halls" becomes "Fleck The Walls," and Ren & Stimpy sing a carol to a man who wants chest hair in "We Wish You A Hairy Chestwig." It's so utterly fucking stupid and 5th grade in its humor, it's great.
In "It's A Wizzleteats Kind of Christmas," R&S visit one of those characters who they really should have explored more: Stinky Wizzleteats. You know him as the singer/songwriter behind "Happy Happy, Joy Joy," but did you also know he's the Santa Claus figure of Yaksmas? Anyway, Stinky's wife answers the door and tells him there are two urchins outside to see him. Stinky, in his inimitable way, says, "Urchins?? What are urchins? Some kinda new-fangled dog? Is that what you are, some kinda dog? Well then, you better bark like a dog!" They do a Yaksmas carol, and then Stinky breaks out into a folksy children's song..
Ooooh, a big wooden chicken lived in the bushBig fat bush, full of wormsThe big fat worms ate the chickenAnd they all died the next day
Which got me to thinking, why isn't there a Stinky Wizzleteats album?? I'm imagining an almost Pete Seeger parody album, a record of children's songs where only half the lyrics make any sense. Hell, they've already got "Happy Happy, Joy Joy." I would be all over a full version of "Big Wooden Chicken" and the accompanying album.
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