I figured I'd try bringing my "column" from LiveJournal over to the forum as well. It's a weekly feature (though I do, ahem, occasionally skip a few weeks) where I choose a particular song, writing around it and making it temporarily available for listening. Aaand, that's more or less it! Feel free to comment. I'll start with this week's entry, which is the eleventh of the second volume.
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Music From The Artic #11: They Might Be Giants - "Idlewild"When I first became a fur and started exploring it online, I stumbled over mentions of the band
They Might Be Giants (or
TMBG) in some artwork and on some sites, so I quickly came to believe they were very popular among furs. Now I'm less under that impression, and I rarely see them mentioned within the
furry scene, be it in artwork or blogs or whatnot.
That wasn't my first encounter with the band (as my first encounter was, as with many others, through the music video episode of Tiny Toons), but it inspired me to buy their 1990 album
Flood, which got a lot of playtime in my early to mid teens. Quirky, geeky, catchy. Pop-rock for nerds who usually don't like the pop-rock genre. They have a lot of good music, and I really should get my tush around to buying a few more of their CDs (though I haven't enjoyed much of what I've heard of their newest music).
The band has also dabbled with children's music - which to me sounds pretty much like their normal music, except with lyrics occasionally using concepts children can easier relate to (like balloons, robots, crossing the street, the ABCs, etc.). Being a babyfur, I am quite receptive to children's music, but unfortunately most children's records seem to be of the
run of the mill variety. So I'm always on the look out for quality children's music, appealing to my baby side but without boring my adult side, and I believe this week's song qualifies:
This track is from an EP that came with the 2003
TMBG children's book
Bed, Bed, Bed. A great, calming, breezy little song, ideal for quiet time. Unfortunately, none of the other songs on the EP are as nice as this one. According to the band itself, the song is "kind of a dream of a perfect day in New York City, sometime in the past".