Ambient Music
As I think I’ve babbled about in this space before, one of the things I really like about big-city life is the regular chance to wander around out in the world alone but surrounded by (usually more or less well-wishing) strangers & near-strangers, which I find to be a strange sort of psychic comfort. And when you find the air around you suddenly filled with a cool song that you haven’t listened to or even thought about in a good long while, well, that’s a bonus. Heard one of these in a record store the other day and the other one in a cafe the other week. Both of them totally addled me, turned me into a nodding, twitching, smiling zombie for a few blissed minutes.
posted by DW | 11.2.07
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>>...totally addled me, turned me into a nodding, twitching, smiling zombie for a few blissed minutes.
There should be a word for this kind of song. Catchy but not ubiquitous (ie. not a "hit," not popular/populist), by an artist with credibility (yes, I know I'm verging on [unintended] snobbery). Call the category "secret summer" or something... Am I making any sense?
Unrelated note: le Tigre should sell(-out) that ditty to MASTERCARD.
Dude, you've drawn me into commenting on my own blog for the first time! I thnk you're on to something, because when I was doing the URL for the mp3 I actually absentmindedly TYPED "My_My_Mastercard."
Sadly, Le Tigre are no strangers to the ad sellout. Both "Deceptacon" and "Hot Topic" have been used in cellphone commercials, I think. But as I get older I try to be less judgmental about these things, and try to remind myself just how low selling a song ranks on the list of the sins of the world.
OK, not the very first time. One of the only times.
Well, clearly I've drawn you into commenting on one of your blog posts TWICE for the first time.
In terms of "selling out," I'm actually much cooler with it if it's a creatively appropriate intersection. "My My Mastercard" is practically screaming to exist--(hopefully inintended) happenstance is simply requiring that it exists. On the other hand, we have my early loss of innocence when Howard Jones's militant vegetarianism song, "Assault and Battery" (circa 1985) was used to sell LABBATT BLUE radio spots in Canada. WTF? Even if HoJo donated all the proceeds to vegetarian charity (and I'm not saying that I have the slightest inkling of what was done with the profits), that was just plain wrong.
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