Expose The Part Of It All

Robert Pollard “The Right Thing” – The first minute or so of “The Right Thing” is the ultimate Pollard demo castoff – a promising snippet of melody lost in a poorly recorded mess of unsure guitar playing and awful singing. If you’re familiar with Pollard’s extended catalog, you’ve most certainly come across a few of these and wanted to shout at him “FINISH THE SONG! YOU CAN SING AND PLAY BETTER THAN THIS!” And for once, he actually does, shifting into a proper full band arrangement after a solid minute of flailing for notes that aren’t necessarily out of his reach. It’s not the first time he’s juxtaposed a raw demo and a full studio recording in the same track, but as far as I can remember, it’s the most successful he’s ever been at being meta about his process while also providing an interesting dynamic that suited a song. (Click here to buy it from Merge Records.)

Also: Would anyone be willing to hook me up with the Doctor Who Christmas special? I simply do not have enough space on my laptop to get it via bittorrent, and I’m very eager to see David Tennant in the role.