One more song today

We are rocking out so hard in the Monkey Cage today, I just have to share. Maybe every Wednesday will see multiple music posts. It seems like there's a huge amount of good, new music, why the F not? I wanna rock! ROCK! I wannnnt tooooooo rock, ROCK!

The bonus humpday ditty is called "The Funeral", by Band of Horses. For music-heads, this band is old news. They are like sooooo last year. OMG, I can't believe Monkeyboy didn't see and do this band when the cool kids did! Fair enough, but for some of us, the first time we heard Band of Horses we said "myyyeahhhhhhh". Say it out loud the way it's spelled, it was my honest opinion on B.O.H. Just another shoegazey indie jamband making slow songs about being sad. I know, that has it's place in the pantheon of modern music, but I still want my sad stuff to have a bit of balls or spice to it. But then this morning Mr. iTunes was doing his business, playing my songs in order of "Date Added" (my preferred method of cube-rocking). And lo and behold, this song gently flicked my earlobe and said "dude, I think you're into this. You really like this tune alot. Play me again, ok pal?" And I played it over and over, and I do indeed love the song.

If the lead singer of Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyle, is secretly in another band, it would have to be Band of Horses. Ben Bridwell croons a specific tone somewhere between falsetto-whiney and painstakingly heartfelt. It's a vocal style that puts him in good company in terms of long term success. Last I checked, Flaming Lips were headlining the mainstage at Coachella, have legions of nutty fans, and encourage costumed animals to frolic onstage. All plusses if you want to make it big. However, perhaps paying deference to their Seattle background, Band of Horses seems like they're on downers or opiates. They don't do uplifting. At all. They want the girl to stay the night, and she won't. They use the words OFF and OVER alot. As the song I've given you today states, "at every occasion I'll be ready for the funeral." I respect the guys for singing it the way they feel it - that's what indie music is about. But in my role as twitchy primate/future reader, I see lots of thirty somethings swaying to the Horses in small clubs for the next decade, and not a single mention in Blender. I am sure the band will be tickled if that's how it plays out for them. Good luck lads.