songs:365

Tag: parquet-courts

  • day 297: Total Football

    Total Football, by Parquet Courts.

    This song takes a soccer tactical approach — Total Football — popularized by the Dutch in the 1970s, though it’s used elsewhere before and after — and applies it as a metaphor to the basic tenets of socialism, which, yes, I am the target market.

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    Maybe for the first time in this whole project, this is just the electric guitar, me and the microphone placed in a useful place for picking up my vocals, while the guitar is kinda impossible to miss. Seems appropriately lo-fi, and I’m glad I don’t have time today to try and drop a multi-track opus for this one.

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  • day 108: Freebird II

    Freebird II, by Parquet Courts.

    This song has been on the list for a long time, one of my favorite Parquet Courts songs to sing along with in the car. A rare daytime recording today, with natural light, the ten-year-old mashing his mouse playing Roblox on the couch next to me, and perhaps the dog snoring.

    Parquet Courts is of course one of countless bands I only know about because of an All Songs Considered podcast or something similar, but I always remember I spotted one of my “little” (millennial) cousins listening to them on Spotify in the scrobbling days, so I felt like it was validated as cool.

    I don’t know too much else about the band, other than I like all their music.

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    Drum loop, MIDI organ, guitar-as-bass dropped an octave, rhythm guitar, vocals with sparse additional guitar, and two backup vocals, recorded in that order.

    I love how I can spend 20 minutes looking for the right drum loop in garageband, but the right answer is always, like, “BAR BAND FOUR ON THE FLOOR” or something like that, which makes sense when you realize I am not brave enough to keep up with a drum loop on anything more complicated than that.

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