Feelin' Verkrampte

October 8, 2007... I've been feeling pretty blue lately, for a lot of different reasons. I am a sun-worshipper who loves hot weather, but the sun is setting earlier every day if it bothers to rise at all, and the days are getting cooler. Soon I will have to wear pants again, and soon after that, long underwear. Oh yeah, plus there's that whole turning-forty-one-and-feeling-like-I-have-nothing-to-show-for-it thing...

Last night, I sat down and listened to Mother of God! It's Expando Brain!, an LP put out in the mid-eighties by the Boston-based band Expando Brain. It's a record that alternates between jangling gloominess and power-chorded explosions of pop-punk--frequently in the same song--with lyrics that are a mix of heartbreak and silly, post-adolescent humour ... not usually in the same song. If it weren't for the fact that I file my albums alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by release date, I'd file this one between Mission of Burma and Squirrel Bait. I like it.

Expando Brain - Happy Part

Expando Brain - Don't Know

Expando Brain - Flogging a Dead Relationship

For more Expando Brain, check out Press Random, whose link to the great song "Thyroid" is still live.

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