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June 23, 2004
Counterpoint #7
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June 09, 2004
Counterpoint #6
There May Be Giants - Lady is a Tramp
This li'l tune comes from Miscellaneous T which is an early collection of b-sides. It has no lyric. The counterpoint is the interplay of a muted trumpet and something else which I think is also a trumpet.
I'm very busy right now and will be for the next week, so.
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June 06, 2004
Counterpoint #5
The Halo Benders - Do That Thing
This was the original song for the movie That Thing You Do. When they changed the title, The Halo Benders refused to alter the lyric. There were legal battles, name calling, nasty emails, all that stuff. When the dust cleared, The Halo Benders retained ownership of the song and put it on their album on the condition that they didn't publicize the whole naming fiasco.
The Halo Benders includes Doug Martsch from Built to Spill and a guy from Beat Happening which, who is that? The raspy deepness of his voice is as ubiquitous as Stephen Merritt's voice (of the Magnetic Fields). Which I'm okay with. But if this song annoys you, I can understand that.
Doug Martch's voice is the higher one that makes this track rather catchy. It's pretty amazing that people can come up with such.
Also, that's not true about about this song being originally written forThat Thing You Do. It was just me making a joke.
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June 03, 2004
Counterpoint #4
Guided By Voices - Optical Hopscotch
I actually really don't like most of this song. But the part I enjoy, the counterpoint part, makes it worth your while. It doesn't occur until the second time they sing the chorus and it not only redeems the entire song, but it also still gives a guy the chills.
This is from Do The Collapse which I got in Tahlequah, OK in the Fall of 1999. It was produced by Ric Ocasek and after that experience, Robert Pollard said he would never work with Ocasek again--I think largely because Ocasek had a no-drinking rule during studio sessions. And he just didn't like the sound of the album. Not lo-fi enough. If you listen to it you can hear the similarities to Weezer's Blue Album.
A few months later GBV came through SLC and I wanted to hear this song but no such. I remember Robert got drunk onstage and sounded really good. And he made a joke about how polygamy was cool. Jim MacPherson, who was the Breeders drummer, was their drummer at the time. While they were setting up he asked for some duct tape. Someone in the audience heard this and shouted "Jim MacTapeson" and Jim smiled.
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June 01, 2004
Counterpoint #3
This is from a CD I purchased in Vegas yesterday on my way home from San Diego. They didn't have this CD in San Diego at the hip record store (where they had nothing at all). When you hear twin sisters singing (this band consists of one set of twin sisters), that's the counterpoint. Only lately have I started to develop on an appreciation for things shoegazer.
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