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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
a rare meme
hat tip: brasstax

1) go to wikipedia and click random article. that is your band's name.
2) click random article again; that is your album name.
3) click random article 15 more times (or however many times seems appropriate for your band); those are the tracks on your album.

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My Band: International University College Of Technology Twintech
My Title: Holly River State Park
Tracks: I decided on an even 12.

1) "Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar." A sweeping and cinematic opening track, albeit recorded on cheap equipment. Similar in feel and tempo to the Decemberists' "The Infanta."

2) "Malguenac." An instrumental with a gamelan flavor.

3) "Maccabi Herzliya F.C." A minor-chord, faintly klezmer song in celebration of Israel and its sports teams (and Maccabi beer) .

4) "Insider." A simple three-chord punker blatantly appropriating the Ramones' "Outsider." Lyrics, natch, about annoying scenesters.

5) "Marcus Phillips." Whispering and mysterious, Laika/Portishead style, with a hint of Shaft/Superfly blaxploitation. In this song, Marcus Phillips is a loner - either a spy, or just running from something or someone unnamed.

6) "1982 World Rally Championship Season." Upbeat and a bit twee. I keep thinking Air Miami's "World Cup Fever." Last track side 1 on the LP version.

7) "Progresso." A short Morricone-style instrumental to kick off side 2.

8) "It's All a Long Goodbye." The most blatantly Smiths/Trembling Blue Stars track on the whole album. Long, melodramatic and lushly produced. The college radio/MP3 blog hit.

9) "Reversible Computing." A retro-style electropop track, of course, recorded entirely with vintage synths and drum machines.

10) "Siouan-Catawban Languages." The lyrics would be about how malleable language is and how difficult that makes communication. Probably Scritti Politti-influenced that way. I don’t know what the music would sound like; I don't fancy a Native American tribal chant on this album, but that's what the title implies.

11) "Dieter Van Tornhout." A thrashy guitar/vocal number, recorded live in my basement to a handheld tape recorder and transferred to CD with tape hiss intact.

12) "Oakvale, West Virginia." The third and final instrumental of the album. Centered around one lonely four-bar riff. Has a vaguely countryish sound, but played on cheap electric guitars.

Huh. Holly River State Park doesn't sound like a very good album at all. IUCoTT needs to go back to the drawing board.
Mike posted at 12:16 PM

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