My Main Goal Is To Please Ya

Electric Six “Gay Bar (Best Show On WFMU Remix)” – This is from last night’s episode of The Best Show On WFMU. Tom Scharpling and Petey “remix” the song live on the air, with Petey playing Jandek-meets-Spacemen 3 guitar over the telephone and Tom dropping in a cappella vocals from the Electric Six song. It could very well be one of the most extreme songs ever played on WFMU.

Last night’s Best Show was probably one of the best episodes that I’ve ever heard, and I’ve listened to nearly all of them. I highly recommend checking out the archive for last night’s July 1st episode, and advancing to about the 46 minute mark for the beginning of a hilarious two part skit featuring Jon Wurster which viciously mocks audiophiles and the people with fake German accents who take advantage of them. I don’t want to give too much away, but I assure you that as broad as the comedy in this skit is, the satire of clueless audiophiles is on the money. It’s an instant Best Show classic!

Mya w/ Missy Elliot “My Love Is Like…Wo” – Wo, not whoa. I’m assuming that wo is different from whoa, and that wo indicates a knowing sort of amazement, whereas whoa signifies a Keanu-like state of being utterly dumbfounded. The production is a bit more understated than what one might normally expect from Missy Elliot, but I would say that is a good thing. It’s not quite on the level of Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love,” but it is certainly a top notch summer pop single. Also: I appreciate that when Mya sings the words “my main goal is to please ya” it sounds sort of like “my mango is to please ya.”

Speaking of “Crazy In Love,” I was just watching BET for a little bit, and they played the video for the song two times in the span of ten minutes. There was only one song between the two airings! The airwaves are totally saturated with this song at this point. I’m starting to wonder when I’m going to finally get sick of hearing it – it’s always on tv, it’s on the radio, I listen to it on the Beyonce album very frequently. Somehow, after hearing the song at least once per day for nearly two months, it still sounds fresh and exciting every time. That’s pretty amazing.

Gillian Welch “Look At Miss Ohio” – I’m not sure what to say about this song. It’s just very, very good. It’s a lot more downbeat and glum than most of the songs that I’ve been posting lately. No one would ever confuse this for Joycore, you know?