What are you listening to right now?

Withnail

Withnail

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This is a strange beast, it has earwormed me for most of the day.

It is either the most, or the least, Arcade-Fire-sounding song i've ever heard.

Every song that i've ever heard
Is playing at the same time
It's absurd

And it reminds me that everything now

Would turn the speakers up to their break
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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One of my favourites.


The “old school” to which Fagen and Becker refer is Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. In 1969, the two were nabbed in a pot raid by local police along with Fagen’s then-girlfriend Dorothy White. Fagen remembered the incident to Entertainment Weekly in 2006. ”These were the days when there was a ‘war on longhairs,’ as they used to call it,” he said, ”and Bard’s in this kind of rural district. They picked up about 50 kids just at random. There were a few warrants, and one was for me, which was based totally on false testimony.”

After he and the other “longhairs” had their heads shaven in prison, Bard bailed Fagen out. The college didn’t do the same for Becker and White, however, because they weren’t technically students at the time, thus earning the ire of Fagen and sowing the seeds of “My Old School.”

http://americansongwriter.com/2013/03/steely-dan-my-old-school/

And I always used to find myself singing this one when I was driving to or from Middlesbrough. Weird??!!?

 
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