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...so don't you get worried at all. (A weblog of music and otrogenerica)

Thursday 2 September 2010

Song of the day: #22 Your Infamous Harp – "Cock Lobster"

<a href="http://yourinfamousharp.bandcamp.com/track/cock-lobster">Cock Lobster by Your Infamous Harp</a>

i can't decide if i find this song terrible or amazing, or somewhere in the middle, or veering dementedly between the two. i think the fact someone compared Your Infamous Harp to the horrible System of a Down in the comments made me flinch, and it does initially come off a tad wacky. But then again, the production's really good, the title's obviously amazing1 , the lyrics have a certain silly wit,2 and the song structure's appealingly inventive too.3

and i like the way the guy singer seems to be deliberately aping Fred Schneider in his semi-regular exclamations of "cock lobster!" Actually, having now listened a few times, i've decided this is actually pretty good.

1 In fact, i only discovered it by Googling to see if anyone had actually written a song with this name yet.
2 "i don't want no lobster from you/i think that's very, very rude/you have such harsh words/for being such a delicate food".
3 Such as the 6/8 switch at 1:10 and then back into driving 4/4 a few bars later.

2 comments:

the Tsaritsa said...

Definitely not my cup of tea. Rock Lobster is a great song, Cock Lobster is coming off half-cocked.

andy said...

SWEEEET!

thanks for the link mon!

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