Ethan's Top 10 Pinback Songs

Ethan's Top 10 Pinback Songs
1. Loro
2. Boo
3. Tres
4. Forced Motion
5. Sender
6. Grey Machine
7. Bouquet
8. Prog
9. Autumn of the Seraphs
10. Tripoli

Brian's Top 10 Pinback Songs
1. June
2. Loro
3. Boo
4. Your Sickness
5. Tres
6. Forced Motion
7. Grey Machine
8. Manchuria
9. Lyon
10. The Yellow Ones

Taylor's Top 10 Pinback Songs:
1. Manchuria
2. Off by 50
3. June
4. Loro
5. Lyon
6. Syracuse
7. Prog
8. Penelope
9. Tres
10. AFK

Analysis:
We all agree upon: Loro and Tres
Ethan and Brian agree upon: Loro, Boo, Tres, Forced Motion, Grey Machine
Ethan and Taylor agree upon: Loro, Tres, Prog
Taylor and Brian agree upon: Loro, Tres, June, Manchuria, Lyon
Only on Ethan's List: Sender, Bouquet, Autumn of the Seraphs, Tripoli
Only on Brian's List: Your Sickness, The Yellow Ones
Only on Taylor's List: Off by 50, Syracuse, Penelope, AFK

Songs off of Pinback: Tripoli, Loro, Lyon
Songs off of Blue Screen Life: Boo, Penelope, Prog, Your Sickness, Tres
Songs off of Summer in Abaddon: Sender, Syracuse, The Yellow Ones, AFK
Songs off of Autumn of the Seraphs: Bouquet, Off by 50
Songs off of Some Voices: Manchuria, June
Songs off of Offcell: Grey Machine
Songs off of Too Many Shadows: Forced Motion
Songs off of Autumn of the Seraphs (Bonus): Autumn of the Seraphs

Charles Foster Ofdensen

Everything being a lawyer should be is summed up in the person of Charles Foster Ofdensen, the manager, legal counsel, and CFO of the band Dethklok from the TV show Metalocalypse. The premise of the show, for those not watching, is that the band Dethklok has become so hugely successful that the world economy rises and falls with the bands exploits. The beauty of the attorney-client relationship between the biggest death metal band ever and a man that commands their army of Klokateers, manages the 7th largest economy in the world, and frequently uses Machiavellian tactics to keep them alive and their record sales up, is that he does it all with the same attitude and professionalism that most attorneys give to corporate clients, regardless of the fact that the band members are largely apathetic to the world around them. Ofdensen is a seemingly reasonable attorney, always wearing a gray, non-descript suit, who nonetheless orders violence against enemies of Dethklok and even orders the abduction and torture of those who illegally download Dethklok's songs. All law should be as subtly brutal as Charles Foster Ofdensen.

Top 10 Pinback songs revisited

Ethan,


While you were hiding from the Internet, Brian and I posted our Top Ten Pinback songs. We're still waiting for yours. To recap:


Brian's Top 10 Pinback Songs
1. June
2. Loro
3. Boo
4. Your Sickness
5. Tres
6. Forced Motion
7. Grey Machine
8. Manchuria
9. Lyon
10. The Yellow Ones

Taylor's Top 10 Pinback Songs:
1. Manchuria
2. Off by 50
3. June
4. Loro
5. Lyon
6. Syracuse
7. Prog
8. Penelope
9. Tres
10. AFK

Now you have the conundrum of deciding who you want to agree with more or if you want to be contrary to us both. Your move.

The Money Beets and Politics

I suggest that we write several original songs about politics. I think we should make radically liberal and radically conservative songs and either play them back to back, or check and see if Leslie is in the audience and then play the conservative ones.

And if anyone with money shows up, let's go with a communist tune, perhaps China's March of the Penguins or whatever their national anthem is...cause let's be honest, some form of taking money from the wealthy and giving me money is the only way I will get rich.

This just in: Santogold is overrated.

Santogold is overrated. If you haven't even heard of Santogold (a black Tegan or Sara who apparently got to make a record because soul singers are cool again because of Amy Winehouse), this means of course your current rating of "who?" or "huh?" still grossly overrates her talent. Song one on the album that my friend Corie left at my place has some novelty to it, but the album goes downhill fast.

Welcome Myself to the blog

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome myself to this blog. I had a slight false start, but I am here now. The Money Beets are now complete, besides the fact that Brian offers nothing musical, while Taylor and I are both horribly out of practice.

I vote that we are a cover band with a few original tunes mixed in. But we only cover songs we like, not a specific genre or band.

I would do heroin if it was legal...in which case I would take one for the team by becoming the most cliche member.

I would like to die to Loro by Pinback.

I will not be hiking Mt. Whitney, unless there is beer involved, in which case I will drink the beer then say no to hiking.

Thank you and you're welcome

Music to die to

Happy Monday morning. So when I was hiking Mount Whitney a couple weeks ago I brought my iPod to listen to music. Even though I felt fine the whole hike and made it to the top without any problems, I had the thought that if I were hiking Mount Everest or something actually hard and died on the mountain, what music would I want to be playing. I also wondered, if I had my iPod on random and was laying beside the trail half-frozen, what if some terrible song that I have on my iPod mostly as a joke, started playing and I had to sit there dying, listening to Since U Been Gone or something that Leslie has on my iPod that I don't even know about. You would hope that the last song would be something dramatic and deep (Goodbye Sky Harbor by Jimmy Eat World or the Birth and Death of the Day by Explosions in the Sky) or even ironically apropos (Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult or Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor). Really though if I were freezing to death on the top of a mountain I would want to listen to songs about sunshine and being alive (A Summer Song by Chad and Jeremy or Syracuse by Pinback).

In other news, I'm planning a hiking/camping trip back to Mount Whitney for next August. Who's in?