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Colby Cosh is out of the country on the Western Standard cruise, so I’ve taken the liberty of pillaging his archives. Don’t anyone tell him.
I was looking for something else entirely (I forget what—a Google search had tagged Colby’s Feb. 2004 archive and I was scrolling through it) when I turned up this:
Attention, old roommates who used to bore me with old war stories of the Vancouver “indie” scene: all is forgiven, many times over. The Pornos are often described as a “power pop” group, but only here do they truly aspire to the label and play in the Weezer League. Footnote: the video is one of the twenty best ever made.
The band he’s referring to is The New Pornographers, a critically-acclaimed band that I’d heard of, but never heard. Critically-acclaimed bands don’t get much play on Canadian radio, and I’ve learned to avoid buying critically-acclaimed CDs sight unseen, as it were. I meant to download some tracks but never did get around to it.
But with a recommendation like that, I could tarry no longer. The song is called “All For Swinging You Around,” and the video is here. (Second from the top on the right—the Windows Media link is broken, and the sound on the Quick Time link is too tinny. That leaves the Real Player version.)
As for the song—well, it’s catchy enough, though not that remarkable. However, you’ll note that Colby said that the video was one of the twenty best. As it features pretty girls jumping around, I cannot help but agree.
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