Also, Neko doing Soulful Shade of Blue (2004)
Earlier Neko posts: You Belong to Me, Long Time Gone, and Train from Kansas City (along with a bunch of other stuff).
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Weather Girls
Every day I get up at Oh Dark Thirty and trudge to the salt mines to make a few kopeks to keep the bill collectors at bay. I usually pick up a sugary soda (real sugar, mind you) and a couple of hard boiled eggs on the way, make my way to work and plunk myself down to blast away at my typically filled inbox. I get more done in the two hours before my employees show up than I do the rest of the day.
Along with my breakfast of champions described above I give myself one other guilty pleasure to start my day off. The Weather Girls. Every day I get my forecast delivered by several cute Asian ladies (I think these are actually Taiwanese). The forecast is always wrong, the cities are out of order and I don’t understand a word of what they say. Like it matters.
Today’s forecast was special. Tell me if you can see anything, well, unusual in this clip.
[youtube Y5AMRNYuqyk Weather Girls]
Jeb Corliss, Grinding The Crack
ChicagoBoyz warning: Don’t try this without proper adult supervision.
Camera Obscura, Swans (2009)
(The video is just the album cover, so no point in putting it on here.)
It is absolutely triple-A rated ear candy.
I was having dinner at Noodles & Company (which is a pretty good chain) on Michigan Ave. a while ago and I heard over the noise this incredibly sweet pop song, with a girl singer, exactly my kind of thing, but I could not discern enough to track it down in the few seconds I heard out of it. I was downcast by this, figuring it was lost forever into the void. But then I went back there a few weeks later and was elated to hear it again. It was as delightful as I remembered it being. This time I was able to capture a few scraps of lyrics, and I was able to — get this — whistle the melody into my phone, so I wouldn’t forget it. I thought it might have been Camera Obscura, but I wasn’t sure, and my first efforts to identify it did not work out. When I got home I related this all to my son, who is by now well acquainted with my musical obsessions, and who has mad Internet noodling skilz. He quickly found it. So, a happy ending.
(I previously had another song by Camera Obscura on here called French Navy.)
Lyrics below the fold