Song Of the Day: February 9, 2005
It's snowing as I write this, and you know, we get a bit moody. The cats are all nestled snuggly in front of the various heat ducts, and we're enjoying one of the somber numbers from Tall Dwarfs' staggering body of work. While the most obvious American approximation of Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox's beautiful home-recorded weirdness is capable only of dealing in smug irony, these New Zealand hippie punks have zeroed in upon both the beauty and absurdity of existence over and over on geez how many albums now. This one was actually issued as three 10" records, but one CD holds 'em all.
1 Comments:
I don't think Ween are smug.
The comparison is not really a helpful one, not to mention that there are hundreds of American 4-track artists that pre-date Ween. Obviously, you were not really around when the 4-track scene was really hopping.
Strangely, I like Ween and Knox/Bathgate about equally. I would even argue that Tall Dwarfs have even more crap songs than Ween do! Obviously, Ween deal more in IRONY and outright sarcasm but that alone does not make them smug. Why even bring them into it? You like Tall Dwarfs, that's cool.
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