Music for you!

[mayhap]

So many thanks to everyone who sent me music! You guys rock. Even more thanks to azureflight for pointing me to the lovely music recommendation community teh_music.

In return, here are a few songs for you that you may not have heard as they are weird obscure.

John Fisher Ford by Zog Bogbean

This is--is there a musical equivalent of juvenalia?--by the lead singer of Marcy Playground. Highly infectious and catchy, sort of like one of those kids' singalong tapes that you listen to over and over in the car, but the lyrics go a little something like this:

John Fisher Ford died
Held a flame over his basepipe
Tried to smoke some crack
And it killed him

Vedergällningen (Vengeance) by Garmarna

Fabulous recommendation from wired_lizard: "Garmarna is a Swedish folk-industrial band (yup, folk-industrial) that mostly does glorious adaptations of traditional Swedish ballads and folksongs". This song is lovely and haunting and addictive.

J'ai vu le loup (Traditional) by the Baltimore Consort

This is my song that I heard in French class and spent years trying to find again. ;) Traditional French drinking song, toe-tapping and irresistible. (Yeah, I don't know why I keep describing these songs as if they were drugs or diseases when I want you to download them.)

Canada is Really Big by the Arrogant Worms

Canada's premiere (and only) comedic musicians (that I know of) sing "our national anthem ... that we wrote". Recorded live. Apparently I end up singing this song a lot when I'm drunk, but it is entirely suitable for singing sober, as well. Sample lyrics:

The USA has tanks
Switzerland has banks
They can keep them thanks
They just don't amount
Cause when you get down to it
You find out what the truth is
It isn't what you do with it
It's the size that counts

Comments

[lethie.livejournal.com]

Is that the same song that says "Weeeee've gooooot...trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and...waterrrrrrrr"? If not, that's a song about Canada from the Worms as well.

There's also a song called the War of 1812 that you've probably heard already, but it's often attributed to Arrogant Worms, and I believe the actual group is 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie. It's a hoot :).

[mayhap]

The song in question is called, believe it or not, Rocks and Trees. :D

So there are Canadian comedic musical groups I hadn't heard of. See, you learn something every day. ;) And that song is a riot, so I suppose the people who mislabel their songs were doing me a favor. Sort of.

[basking-lizard.livejournal.com]

Heh. At the bottom of their discography, the Worms have a section entitled 'Songs we didn't write'. Also included with a couple of the 3DT songs is one called 'Cows with Guns' (v. funny) and also 'The Toronto Song', which is also quite amusing.

But, yeah, Rocks and Trees is about my favourite song by them. :)

/geologist

*bats eyelashes*

[mayhap]

You wouldn't, by any chance, want to send it to me?

Re: *bats eyelashes*

[basking-lizard.livejournal.com]

Sure! I'll send that and War of 1812. I wasn't sure if you had either already, but I guess if you did, duplicates are easily deleted.

/sends

Re: *bats eyelashes*

[mayhap]

Sweet! I've had them both played for me, but don't have either. :)

Re: *bats eyelashes*

[basking-lizard.livejournal.com]

I'm sending those, and some other Worms ones, just so you have them.

Yay Arrogant Worms! :)

Re: *bats eyelashes*

[mayhap]

Yay! Thank you!

Way back in the day, my best friend played me the Arrogant Worms on some bizarre archaic thing called a cassette. :D

[wisdomeagle]

Agreed with above poster... "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" also kick much ass.

Not sure if "Local Anxiety" is the same thing as "Arrogant Worms." I think there's some connection between the two, but I'm not sure what it is.

Anyhow, thanks sooo much for the music. You rock!

[mayhap]

You're welcome! Enjoy! And, most importantly, recover from the Plague o' DOOM ...

[wisdomeagle]

Aww, thank you.

I'm doing much better, actually. Still a little stuffy, still coughing a bunch, but no longer doomified.

[azureflight.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for uploading those. (Canada Is Really Big had me grinning.) Here's to being reunited with long lost French ditties. :)

[mayhap]

Hee, you're very welcome. :)