Saturday, May 21, 2011

POW:052111 - Last laugh

I'd previously linked to one of my favorite songs off the Merge Records 20th Anniversary covers compilation. This one isn't exactly a favorite cover, but there is a subtle appreciation here that is so much of an in-joke that no one, not even the one person who might think he does, actually gets it but me. Which makes this particular version all the more endearing.

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)(cover) - Times New Viking



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I've made a mix and find myself reluctant to release it. Maybe because I broke my own rule of not listening to it all the way through and did so--a necessity borne out of a lack of practice with how the mix was put together--and felt a strong sense of sudden exposure. Oh, not by what might or might not be obviously (and, for what it's worth, quite wrongly, at least by the general audience) deduced from the choices in the mix or the arrangement of the songs, but by my own reaction to what ended up in there. You could say this was one long in-joke that even I didn't want to be privy to.

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