Artist: Mr. Bungle
Song: Sweet Charity
Album: California
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Why this song is awesome:
I always picture this song playing in the hallways of some tropical insane asylum to mellow out the patients.
And this slight lyrical shift is a really clever way of showing how the line between religious and crazy is often paper thin:
Save me / The heavens have opened / I’m coming home / Sweet charity
Save me / The asylums have opened / I’m coming home / Sweet charity
I’m home free…
Artist: Mike Patton
Song: 20 KM Al Giorno
Album: Mondo Cane
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Why this song is awesome:
I have no clue what he’s saying. It could be “20 kilometers per day” as easily as it could be “I just ate 20 hot dogs.” Whatever it is he’s saying, it sounds so fucking cool. Like Frank Sinatra would sound if he went insane and had just chain smoked 400 cigarettes.
Band: Tub Ring
Song: Seven Exodus
Album: The Great Filter
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Why this song is awesome:
The great thing about Tub Ring is that you never have to be in a particular mood to listen to them. They do tons of different genres, but my favourites are always the songs like this which I can’t bloody classify.
Listening to “Seven Exodus” like being in an Asian supermarket. Sure, they carry everything that a normal supermarket does. But they also have that one weird jar of grey mush labeled “Pickled Snake Head Fish” that contains 200% of your daily recommended Vitamin R. You spend a few minutes trying to decide what the hell it is, before realizing the sheer weirdness of it is what makes it fun.
The lyrics are also a pretty interesting and accurate way to describe how we chew up and spit out big media personalities. The song could have been called ‘Perez Hilton’ and it would still make total sense to me.
You came at last, you gave a face to all the media that left us quite aghast / And you filled a void, and your musings filled the broadcast air for all to be enjoyed /Soon we all were moving on/ One last look and you were gone/ Your future may hold many things, but all of us we’re through with you.
