Comments on: Me and the Pedestal

Me and the Pedestal

Karlos the Jackal — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:50:04 -0800

By drowsy, my one-person band. Pop music with autoharp and drum machine!

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:54:35 -0800

Fellow MeFi-er micayetoca stumbled across my nascent website and has been urging me to put this song up for all of you -- um, so here it is!

There are some brief notes about the song here, and you can read the lyrics here.

Okay, have at it!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:38:49 -0800

Pop music with autoharp and drum machine!

Heck, these days it's hard to find any real pop music that doesn't use a drum machine (or, more accurately, sampled drums). Actual flesh-and-bone drummers are as scarce as hen's teeth on Top 40 radio, or so I'm told. Now, autoharp, that's another story. They have that distinct chime-y quality that immediately says...uh... autoharp! And I see you used the old Alesis HR-16: man I went through about 3 of those things back in the day. They were cool. I've still got one in the closet! Your song strikes me as rather New Wave-ish. I'm a little out of touch, so I'd like to ask, is there a sort of New Wave revival on at these days? Sort of a 2nd generation of New Wave?

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:46:56 -0800

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I love the super upbeat autoharp. Definitely an instrument that doesn't receive the love it deserves.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:59:10 -0800

I told you people here were going to love it. And how could they not? it's a lovely song and it's got great lyrics. You certainly have a knack for turning really long phrases into a good melody line.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:51:45 -0800

This is a good one. I think it's the autoharp, but I'm hearing some Magnetic Fields sort of pop, which is a good thing. Great.

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:58:16 -0800

flapjax -- actually, it's the SR-16 -- more common, less cred, probably. I think maybe there was a NW revival that came and went, but there's a lot of bands around now that emulate bands like XTC, Talking Heads, The Cure, etc. More guitars than I'm capable of (i.e., one or more).

sleepy pete -- yeah, I had never heard Magnetic Fields until a year or so ago, and I was kinda jealous at first (I mostly got over it).

B_B, mica -- thanks!

--K

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:28:58 -0800

Dude, this is awesome! So much fun. Post more, man!!!