Who will emerge victorious?
The premise, as always: name the proper tracks in the comment section and win our grand prize! Today's winner gets one copy of Leslie Carter's only officially released single, "Like Wow!" (b/w "True") of which I now own two copies.
Thom Yorke - Spider Song
For this Eraser outtake, Thom Yorke, in an eerie vocoder castrato, reimagines the venerable children's spider (of "itsy bitsy" fame) as a harbinger of the apocalypse. Nigel Godrich contributes ominous minimal blips and bloops and a skittering alien-cyborg backbeat evocative of c. 1995 cyberporn paranoia made flesh and then made robot-flesh and then run through a Cuisinart by a bigger, eviler robot. Yorke has never been more effectively or affectingly cryptic, as his portentous yarn hopelessly frays:
Spider spider/ In my head/ Or are you/ Or are you/ Spider spider/ Water spouts/ Cut it up/ Drag it out/ To the streets and you are dragging it about/ Would that you could/ Would that you would
The glitch-seizure finale (wherein Yorke scats free-associatively until his words dissipate into schizophrenic phonemes) might be the sound of a hypoglycemic fetus being aborted in a nuclear holocaust. Not his strongest effort.
Lily Allen - Wot You Got (The Cancer Song)
"Wot You Got" is a demo that pre-dates "LDN," so it's important to remember that Lily Allen was only 16 when she recorded this (and, allegedly, 12 when she wrote it). But it's hard not to cringe at the delight Allen expresses after learning that her ex-boyfriend -- who, admittedly, once confessed to finding another woman attractive before she dumped him -- has been diagnosed with cancer. Lines like "The cancer wot you got after/ We split fills me up wif laughter" are tasteless and meanspirited, no matter how cheerful the accompanying sunshine-ska sounds in comparison.
Blögospheer - Hivemind
Skronky spit-sax, angular zither, and paleolithically pounded-out toms percussion are the only quasi-musical sounds that make it through the faecal junkyard haze of this Brooklyn-based Icelandic trio's post-urban cacophony. Enigmatically-monikered lead singer Fjörn caterwauls apoplectically, sputtering out phrases that might be English (I think I even heard some biting commentary: "Fucka Boosh! Fucka Boosh! Blood n' skin t'eat!"). This is quickly becoming my favorite new find of the year -- you heard it here first. Quick, you can still see them perform in Williamsburg lofts before P4K "discovers" them three weeks from now!
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So I know I'm a few months late, but I'm curious if you know where I can find the "Wot you got" song for download/purchase whatever. I've scoured the net and cant find it anywhere/ =( Its become one of my favorite songs as of late, and I can only hear it on Hype Machine. Thanks for any help you can offer.
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