Drink Up Buttercup put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen with my eyes. Chaotic, surprising, and filled with trashcans, it somehow still leaves you hummind the tuneful prog-punk choruses for days afterward.
Recently in anticipation of their album drooping in late March they've been recording home tapes of every song on the record in weird ass spaces and posting them on Vimeo. The results are a hallucinatory combination of 'Help' and "Decline of Western Civilization."
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9666448[/vimeo]
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The magical mystery tour returns to DC9 next week (Tuesday, sans pig masks and grandparents) and we have two tickets to giveaway...
To win the tickets to the circus maximus tell us what is your favorite Beatles movie and why!
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
While I think "Help" (minus the sitar-driven James Bond soundatrack part) has the best songs and the best laughs (the adventures of Paul on the floor, wrapped in a gum wrapper and bathing in an ashtray?), "A Hard Day's Night" still wins it for me. When it came out (I 1, my mom took me to see it
(cont'd) ... I was 5, and all I wanted from life was to be one of the girls that got to dance with them at the party to "I Wanna Be Your Man." She let me stay through all four of that day's showings. I guess she liked it too.
Loved "Help" for the farce and Ringo's shenanigans!