September 5, 2005

what all music should sound like

In general, I don't listen to much KCRW. Among certain, much-more-hipster-than-thou audiences in LA, the preceding statement would be akin to telling a seven year-old girl, "I do not find small kittens to be adorable. Oh, and you can't actually become a princess when you grow up." But, I'm sorry, a lot of the shows on that station feature a) amorphous trance rock with an unrelenting drumbeat created by a robot and b) women rapping in French.

But, while lost in the Valley yesterday, I was too preoccupied to plug in my iPod and listened to about twenty minutes of "Weekend Becomes Eclectic." This is where I heard the best song ever, a folky pop song that combines something good about every band I've ever liked, replete with semi-ironic handclaps. While driving, I scrawled down the time of day I heard the song and the song that came after it (a trying-too-hard cover of "Norwegian Wood"), and cross-referenced it against the playlists on the KCRW website. This is how I was introduced to "Lives of Crime," the opening track from the latest Fruit Bats album. Go download it and your mood will stay good always.

Don't make me beg.

Posted by dan at 2:38 PM