so feist appeared on letterman the other night and gave every little music lover a chubby because she was backed up by a chorus of clapping bedazzled arm band wearing rockers -- new pornographers, mates of state, broken social scene, the national and bearforce 1 - um, i mean grizzly bear -- she did (as you can see for yourself) a rockin' 1234 with horns and a banjo.
i mean you throw in some bango and brass and i am a happy, happy man.
as i was watching it however i realized feist is janice from the muppet show.
i'll let you be the judge --
SEE?
i proudly rest my case.
and to celebrate here are a few versions of the rainbow connection (you'll notice the kermit version is missing -- i'll send that tonight - i have the muppet movie soundtrack at home)
the carpenters - she sort changes some of the lyrics in little ways -- random. also - the scary chorus at the end? it's like the song is peacefully coming and then - BAM! - scary sopranos!
listen. is a mostly-daily (but don't hold us to that) offering of good music curated by geoffrey and benjamin. we tend to like old stuff (soul, jazz, classic rock and the like), new stuff (folk, indie of all kinds, whatever else strikes our fancy), and sort-of-new, sort-of-old stuff that you may have forgotten you liked. occasionally we invite friends to share their favorite music with us as well.
1. if you are an artist or a record label or anyone else that matters and you'd like us to remove a track from our blog, please just let us know and we will do so post haste. and we won't even talk shi* about you.
2. the image in our banner is from a photo ben took of the band Fall Harbor performing at Alternating Current in Brooklyn, 01.28.2008.
so many ways to listen.
count the ways you can enjoy the music we share with you:
1. each song has a little play button next to it. click it, listen to it, love it!
2. if you want to take the song home with you, right-click or control-click the title, and select "save link as..." to download.
3. some of the songs we've recently posted will be featured in the "streampad" player below, so you can listen that way too. we highly recommend clicking in the lower right hand corner to popup a new window, which you can make as big as you like.
benjamin and geoffrey are young-ish gentlemen that live in williamsburg, brooklyn. in addition to listening to all kinds of good music, they also enjoy riding their bicycles around town and cooking good meals and doing all sorts of other fun things.
