It makes me want to step outside, I want to loosen my tie

This is another post about music. Apologies to all the nerd and commies. Art Brut has written the funniest goddamn song I have heard in quite some time. Actually their whole album is funny. Sometimes you want to sit down and listen to bands who are taking themselves and their music seriously, and sometimes you want to be able to not think during a song. Art Brut made me laugh out loud and I think they would be happy about that. The first song on the album is about how the band started a band. Think about that for a bit. They are singing about how happy they are that they are now a band. The chorus is the whole band yelling “look at us, we formed a band!!” How can that not make you smile?

I might actually break this album down by how awesome all the choruses are. The second song on the album is My Little Brother and is about the singer’s 22 year old brother started listening to rock and roll and how he is out of control, and started making tapes of bootlegs and b-sides. That was a shitty description. Goddamn am I ever not selling this well. Whatever. They have a song called Modern Art and the chorus is “Modern art makes me want to rock out!” I’m putting exclamation points after all the lines from the songs because that is how they sing them. Another song is about the singers new girlfriend and how he has seen her naked twice. Maybe you need to listen to the song to get the feel for how fucking excited he is that he has seen her naked, but goddamn if listening to crap like that doesn’t make me happy. My only complaint with this album is the lack of hand claps. If there was ever a band that should employ gratuitous hand claps this is it. Someone should write them a letter to tell them that. I think I used gratuitous wrong up there, but I can’t think of a better word.

Alright, I’m done advertising this stuff. People should seriously give this a listen though. I suppose I should say what kind of music it is too. It sounds like early punk kind of stuff. Guitars and bass and drums with some distortion. It sounds better than that. I think I can’t describe it because I read some reviews that compared the music to The Buzzcocks, but I know if I put that in no one will ever listen to it. So ignore that shit. But has anyone even ever heard The Buzzcocks? I sure haven’t. Maybe they are super good based on this band that sounds like them being super good. I may need to check this out. I’ve also seen them compared to Weezer before Weezer started making boring music. Maybe that is a better selling point than The Buzzcocks.

In other news, it looks like Eric is coming down to go riding this weekend. It’s nice to know that some people from Saskatoon like the mountains (even if he’s not in Saskatoon anymore). I remember a time when we actually had organized trips out to the mountains. What the hell happened to everyone who used to go on those? Maybe they realized I suck, so they don’t want to come visit me. Well I think they suck. I guess that makes us even.

Sunshine is going to have 6 chairs open or something ridiculous this weelend. That is where I will be riding. Come find me on Green Run doing sweet carves.

Peace.