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I have found my copies of Bargainville and Turn It On Again. And I am very happy.
"Abacab" and "Fell in Love" are the greatest nonsense songs ever.
"Something I never would have known
Not knowing knowledge never ennobles"
I'm kinda surprised that I still know all the lyrics to Video Bargainville after all these years. That was so my favorite song back in high school. I'm downloading the disco version of that song, since I've evil and spent all my money on a DVD version of Strange Brew.
Katie, where in heaven's name is my copy of Invisible Touch? I had two copies and I know I gave you one. The other one is missing. ;_; Did you end up with the extra copies of Trick of the Tail and Abacab too?
I got a new Barenaked Ladies disk for my birthday, which made me think about how... awkward bands like them and Moxy Fruvous must be to the rest of the world. Like the lyrics to the BNL song "Testing 1,2,3":
"She got a new apartment out on the escarpment"
Unless you live in southern Ontario, odds are you have no freaking clue what "the escarpment" is. I know what it is and it's kinda important for me. It's one of those things that as always been there. But to a listener somewhere else, escarpment just rhymes with apartment.
The world described in the Moxy Fruvous album Bargainville (and on the BNL album Gordon for that matter) is basically the world I grew up in: living on Kraft Dinner and seeing you favorite play places plowed under for the growth of the 'burbs. To quote River Valley:
"This is my world. Don't take it away"
But then I'm a loser who puts a ton of worth on media that means squat to others.
"Abacab" and "Fell in Love" are the greatest nonsense songs ever.
"Something I never would have known
Not knowing knowledge never ennobles"
I'm kinda surprised that I still know all the lyrics to Video Bargainville after all these years. That was so my favorite song back in high school. I'm downloading the disco version of that song, since I've evil and spent all my money on a DVD version of Strange Brew.
Katie, where in heaven's name is my copy of Invisible Touch? I had two copies and I know I gave you one. The other one is missing. ;_; Did you end up with the extra copies of Trick of the Tail and Abacab too?
I got a new Barenaked Ladies disk for my birthday, which made me think about how... awkward bands like them and Moxy Fruvous must be to the rest of the world. Like the lyrics to the BNL song "Testing 1,2,3":
"She got a new apartment out on the escarpment"
Unless you live in southern Ontario, odds are you have no freaking clue what "the escarpment" is. I know what it is and it's kinda important for me. It's one of those things that as always been there. But to a listener somewhere else, escarpment just rhymes with apartment.
The world described in the Moxy Fruvous album Bargainville (and on the BNL album Gordon for that matter) is basically the world I grew up in: living on Kraft Dinner and seeing you favorite play places plowed under for the growth of the 'burbs. To quote River Valley:
"This is my world. Don't take it away"
But then I'm a loser who puts a ton of worth on media that means squat to others.
