Bran Van 3000's 'Glee' is one of my all-time favorite albums, and one of the very few I've never grown tired of even for a little while, in more than a decade. Everybody here has probably heard 'Couch Surfer' and 'Drinking in L.A.', so I picked the track that I think best exemplifies the overall sound of the album, 'Forest'. Please enjoy.


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Another CD I bought on impulse a good while ago, and another slight disappointment it turned out to be as well. Even though it's not an entirely boring idea in principle--to try and make mid-20th-century American music in 21st century Germany and see what happens--the results, for the most part, strike me as pretty dull. None of the eleven songs on ( Read more... )

Another CD I once bought on impulse at a used record store. Beth Hirsch is best known for contributing female vocals to AIR's debut album, 'Moon Safari', especially the single, 'All I Need'.

'Titles & Idols' is a rather unremarkable album in my opinion, not bad by a long shot, but there's simply nothing on it that "sticks". The opening track is ( Read more... )

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A humorous little song about gender roles. When I saw it performed live a couple of years back, I realized that it aims for sexy a lot more than I'd suspected. Beate Lech, pictured below, does sexy rather well.

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