Music love: Awesome ("The band")

[trochee]

I am a big fan of the ungoogleable Seattle musical prodigy supergroup "Awesome". (Yes, the quotes are part of the name -- see what I mean about ungoogleable?)

How can a geek like me not like a lament like "Memory Leak", played so elegantly that it reads as a metaphor for a failing relationship?

This language is lacking
In garbage collecting
So now I've got a memory leak

We need to check
The error logs 
Track down the bug
I've got a hunch
That it's here in this GOSUB 10

[clarinet break]

The machines have been drinking
From the waters of Lethe
So you can't put them back on the heap

Prayers to the Imps
And the Lords of Misrule
They answered in Lisp
And recursive calls
Now it's crashed and you lost it all

ooo... [instrumental and out]

Comments

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

that song sounds awesome. may I be hooked up with an mp3?

[outintexas.livejournal.com]

Ever hear of Psykosonik? The second CD they put out was great... lots of references like this. One of my favorite songs is "Object Disorient"... and they mix their geeky computer and cyber stuff with zen and new age stuff. My favorite song from the album is "Dreaming Real", about lucid dreams and/or virtual reality.

Just an awesome CD.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

haha. it is indeed awesome.

I've sent an MP3 to your-old-username at gmail dot com, which i hope is still active. if not, send me email at trochee at gmail to get which email I should use.

enjoy!