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Thursday, October 05, 2006

"It's Good for a Novelty, But I would Never Buy the T-Shirt!"

"well this year's tusetape ("Toos" or "Tuse" a nickname for the ME, as well as for the EIC -- it's a CD, but "tape" is the historical term) is overidden with...what's the word?... saddness, melancholy...and that's apparent not only in the music but the cartoons. It's clear that tuse has decided this is his swan song and he's far too old to play the hipper-than-thou college hipster and he's going to put it to rest with this collection.

With that in my head I plug the disk in and the first thing I hear is some sampled beats and british accented rap...some fucking guy telling the story of cidneralla in an uninterested and far-too-long way. we're off to a usual tusetape

morningwood -- yep, once again tuse is looking back to when he would like a teenager band like this. it's an ok tune, i listen to it.

Tuse remebers the glory days of grunge, the last time he was young enough to grab onto something. so he puts on a pearl jam tune, and in keeping with pj it's fucking horrible...really bad...it sounds like what they thought an outake from Quadophenia would sound like. but i'll grant you, two rocking tunes in a row, let alone present -- that's rare for a tuse tape.

ok, i also want to say something and I'm going to say it now rather than a more logical or in-order context. last night, i predicted there would be a corrine baily rae song on here.

edward bear -- i don't know who this guy is - bear -- I expected a burly voice, what I got was kinda wussy. my notes say "wussy voice"

coming up next, the chalets. Ok, this starts a sub-theme...we got some chicks, some whiny-ass chicks, I'm thinking maybe it's a dance tune, nope, some kind of pseudo-fake punk tune...kinda rocks, but the voice starts to grate and I'm waiting to hear this chick talk about her "sexy mistake" and she doesn't.

the avant-garde -- it sounds like something chuck wolry (who sings) would sing. Some music producer said "all the kids are into drugs so let's do a drug song" and hired chuck wolry to do it.

the bell rays. I don't know these people, they have a sista singing, it kinda rocked -- I like it!

on to amy millan. To the smug music guy, I had the amy millan when it was only available in canada

Boy least likely to (low, pained moaning sound): oh my God did this not rock. low point so far of the tape.

cold war kids -- this song was terrible. we've reached a new low. the screeching voice was so irritating it made me look forward to the next song...

...which was Bocephus the Third ("Hank Williams III") I thought this guy was supposed to be a punk rocker kid...it's good for a novelty but I would never buy a t-shirt.

nada surf -- we return to the theme of tuse looking back over his music life in all the smugness of those he lorded over. some tune that sounds straight out of 1983 -- poppy little inconsequential thing.

matthew puckett -- continuing the sub theme, here's a guy with a wussy voice singing about (voice high and whiny) "girl, what's a girl to do?, what's a girl to do?" - this tune sucked.

murs -- the cadence was fine, but reeked of being way oversampled.

foghat -- tuse continues his theme ...by including a tune released in the late 70's and disappeared. it doesn't show up on the classic rock radio. it doesn't reek of "look at this classic rock classic", it reeks of "look at all the kinds of music I listen to -- your attacks on me aren't true and I'm so hip."

pippettes - subtheme! chick. whining. my only comment is a question: why would you like this? I don't get it.

continuing sub theme -- be your own pet -- this tune's just bad, the chick voices are starting to blend in a shrillness nothing.

faithless -- well, you know that Monz just got back from europe, so i'm familiar with eurotrash, which is basically what this tune is.

hacienda brothers - now, i like this tune, it's cute. a cute tune. we're on a long awaited upswing now.

...but then comes #20 - Corrine Bailey Rae. (bomb blowing up sound). i didn't know it would fit so smoothly into your subtheme. at this point it becomes clear that tuse is embracing his feminine side.

juliana hatfield -- this song makes me sad because she used to be good.

dianne reeves. vocal jazz sucks, but i would expect a hipster to put something like that on just to show well-roundedness.

Don Lemon -- and we end this year's offering -- I don't remember this tune though I just listened to it.


All that and Monz still had time for a home barbequed steak sandwich on a rye roll, apple, banana, two Sargento (tm) light string cheese things and two fat free Jello (tm) things. He earned it!
Comments:
Monz got jokes!  
omg- you said 'fuck'  
Geez--It's 2:10pm on Friday and no lunch is posted for 10/6. Gosh, Cousin. What gives? Have you lost your zest for rapidly posting Monz' yummy lunch?  
Sorry. At least it beats 7:30 PM from the other day...  
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