Voices blending beautifully and solid song-writing!

Stupendous!

Sure, use it however you'd like! If I owned a skirt I'd have worn it for the recording to get in the right frame of mind. So I had to go with the bright yellow racing shorts.

I have to put this at the end of my 2010 playlist as a feel-good close, is that okay??

Pretty cool "cover" version. Illegal Alien Autopsy

Sparkly indeed. Great fun.

:-D THANK YOU! Rhythmic, naughty and very cool! And yes, that chorus is as sparkly as the skirt I imagine you're wearing right now!

This my fave track - great job! Love that melodic baritone line!

The fact that the song starts out with just vocals and guitar is a remnant of the narrative that I originally planned for the album and was mostly dropped. I actually recorded a bass part covering just the second half of the song -- it worked well in the second-to-last verse but I couldn't come up with a part that didn't totally mess up the last verse/solo-coda section so I canned it. I never even thought about drums. They might work... because I wrote this song on dulcimer and play it on acoustic all the time, I never really think of it as a full-out rocker personally.

Like this one, too. You need bass and drums to go with this to make it really take off IMHO. But free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it! Nice song. ER

I like this. I used to live in Chicago, and I chuckle at your descriptions. ER

Okay - I like this one. It's catchy. The lyrics are well thought out, and the guitar accompaniment fits it like a glove.

LOL love it!

Great Rhythm!

Love the Harmonica playing and the voice is outstanding.

loose and tight .

Thanks for your way too kind comment! You guys have some smashing lyrics and a really nice intimate sound. I'm a fan.

Whoops, that comment was meant to be about this song!

Nice harmonies, really upbeat tune :)

This reminds me a little of Destroyer, a little of Fiery Furnaces; plenty fun

@fudgetusk Sort of -- I imagine we got to the weirdness similar ways (i.e. naturally by being weird people).

Widow/kiddo is the best rhyme I've heard in an RPM album this year and it's not close.

Vocal sound is flat-out badass!

I heard the first couple bars of this and thought, "What dark magic is this?" Then hit the "about" tab. Harmonic minor harmonica! Brilliant!

I want to write an arrangement of this for the choir at my church. Are those diminished chords near the end?

It's funny you should say that; I realized during recording that I subconsciously ripped the main motif from "In Limbo". Most of the melodies are based on 12-tone contrapuntal transformations of the first 4 notes, and I think that's also how most of the melodies in "In Limbo" were developed, so a bunch of fragments in this song end up matching fragments in that one...

At the beginning I thought, "The over-indulgence really isn't as grotesque as all that." Then the middle came.

For some reason I remembered this song saying "on your side" and not "online", and wanted to cover it in really bombastic (maybe sort of Weezer-esque) fashion if I ever (magically) became competent at guitar and drums (without practicing).

Regarding this song's description -- If we only look for what is missing, we will often miss what is.

The sound and words and playing and singing style all work together really well here.

This is hi-larious.

hehe.

Nice guitar playing, keeps the beat going without being simplistic, and some really great moments vocally!

1. Chicago's L announcement guy is the best, the Minneapolis chick is just average. 3. Do they do crazy things on the Hiawatha line like on the L? I mean, like, decorated trains for the holidays (they have a whole "Santa's Sleigh" train, which is awesome). Also, drivers that say weird creepy stuff over the intercom on Valentine's Day (that one may not have been an officially sanctioned program). 2. Cool song, nice groove.

Yay, some single-reeds! Also, you did more singing than usual (on the album generally)! Cool!

(is your username a dark tower reference or is cuthbert your name or something?) the transition into the non-beat-y section of this feels really familiar, i don't know why. anyhow, it sounds really nice!

Moar like SEXUAL congress time is sexy time, amirite?

Random thoughts on your album. 1. For a while I kept reading the title of this album/song as "tunesight" and I thought "that sounds like it might be full of synths and drum machines", and I didn't listen to it for a while, sort of because I was busy but also sort of because of the title, which wasn't actually its title. 2. When I picture you making music I picture you in a room with at least one whole side and maybe part of the ceiling made of window, with sun pouring in, but somehow there isn't glare anywhere and you don't have to wear sunglasses inside, because, seriously. Anyway, my point is that this room is warm, and not because the heater is on. And you pull down a trusty sun-faded uke from the wall and start playing into an invisible microphone connected to an invisible MacBook running Linux. Or maybe BSD. NetBSD. *Invisible* NetBSD. 3. So it's natural, then, that you're in LA. Is it cheating to do a February music challenge in LA?

This would be perfect music for a Brad Neely short, in every way.

Ha, I just faved three straight tracks on your album. This one because I like the tune, and it somehow sounds like a cross between lots of bands I like.