I was going to write about Weezer today, but I figured that I wanted to give people the impression that I actually like music at least some of the time, so we're going with this instead.

If I had known about Liam Finn's solo debut a year ago, I'm pretty sure this song would be far up near the top of my best of 2008 playlist. It's so brilliant.

I heard it at the end of an episode of The United States of Tara, and like oh my god, I used Shazam on my T-Mobile G1 with Google Only $97.99! and it was so totally sick you don't even know. Then I totally didn't download it illegally first, I immediately went to AmazonMP3 and bought it from them because even though Liam is Neil's son and will never have to worry about money for the rest of his life probably, he deserves money for this sleepy & wonderful album. I guess. He deserves money for about 75% of it.

If I was to find something to not like about the album as a whole, I would say he gets really stuck on repetitive phrases. For one whole song it's all "everyone gather to the chapel, to the chapel" over and over again, and then, most annoyingly, it's "I'LL BE LIGHTNING, YOU'LL BE LIGHTNING" in high pitched falsetto voices.

Stuff like that just doesn't play well, especially at low volumes underneath conversations because it forces people to stop talking and pay attention to "what the fuck is that annoying shit on the stereo?" There's no rhythm to it either, it's just a general flow, like a crowd wave at a baseball game, up and down it swells and ebbs consistently, droning. Shit like that kills me. I'm a fan of repetitive, anthemic songs, but they have to have a beat to them, a rhythm.

I notice now that I have the "CD version" of the release, which is missing five songs for some reason, I don't know why. What's odd is that I can't find any place that you can find the 19 track version for download, not even illegally. Also the 14 track version is only 53 minutes long, by no means a complete compact disc. I'm going to assume that Wikipedia is on crack. Any Liam Finn historians around who can perhaps provide a 19 track version of this album to me?

Anyway go buy this album and listen to it on a cool Saturday drive. If you're over here with me on the Best Coast then it's going to be a really nice day.

Site Note: How funny is it that all the ads over there are for buying stairs! Hah! Sheesh.