Present Joys

nigel:

Lambchop — “National Talk Like a Pirate Day” live at XX Merge.

Signal boost in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. The perfect thing.

nigel:

This is, I think, my favorite live recording of “Old College Try”, an excellent Mountain Goats song from their excellent album Tallahassee. Listen to the bass. Especially at the very end. It’s superb.

I was going to post this video but then I realized I’d already posted it so instead I will just reblog myself. How’s that for ingenuity?

My band started working on a new album this summer. Here are some of us performing a new song a few hours after making it up.

I listened to this band so much as a kid. In case you were curious how I ended up the way I did…

Thine’s all the glory / man’s the boundless bliss

The Lord is ris’n indeed! Hallelujah!
Now is Christ risen from the dead,
And become the first-fruits of them that slept.
Hallelujah, and did He rise? did He rise?
Hear it ye nations! hear it, Oh ye dead!
He rose, He burst the bars of death
And triumphed o’er the grave.
Then I rose, then first humanity
Triumphant passed the crystal ports of light
And seized eternal youth.
Man, all immortal hail,
Hail heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man,
Thine’s all the glory,
Man’s the boundless bliss.