Single of the Week: Beck and White Town
Posted on May 18, 2007The first single this week is from my favorite scientologist (why oh why did he have to be a scientologist…), Beck. “Sexx Laws” is off of the Midnite Vultures album, and while it came with a sort of ridiculous video, it’s a fast and funky track, mashing up dirty horns with bluegrassy banjos and twangy pedal steel guitars. Very interesting indeed.
The other, or “second”, single of this week is Jyoti Mishra, a.k.a. White Town, with “Your Woman“. Recorded almost entirely in Mishra’s bedroom on a Mac, the song is considered a one-hit wonder of the ’90s. The song is mostly driven by an electric piano and a sample of the trumpet from a 1932 jazz tune, “My Women” (my sources are unclear on whether it was Al Bowlly or Lew Stone that recorded the song). It’s a catchy little gender-bending ditty that makes me nostalgic for the days of middle school, sipping lemonade, chasing girls, and listening to The Edge, the no-longer existing local alternative rock station.
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I don’t like Beck and I don’t like scientologists.