I remember "America" being a good song, but the rest I forget.

I was right. They shipped the second copy of Hec's book I ordered separately from Corwood's. Cool beans.

How do we do it? How do we do it? How do we do it? Volume! Volume! Turn up the volume!

Songs on Groovy Decay
: 1. Night Ride to Trinidad
2 Fifty Two Stations
3. Young People Scream
4. Rain
5 America
6 How Do You Work This Thing?
7. The Cars She Used to Drive
8. Grooving on a Inner Plane
9 St. Petersburg
10 When I Was a Kid
11. Midnight Fish
12 It Was the Night

And what All Music says about the two Groovys:

Four years after its release, Robyn Hitchcock pulled Groovy Decay from circulation, replacing it with Groovy Decoy, an alternate version of the record assembled mainly from demos he recorded with Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman; the album included some versions that are identical to the Decay material, as well as a handful of new songs. By and large, Groovy Decoy is a better record, with more immediate and gripping versions of the songs that comprised the original album, but the material remains some of the weakest Hitchcock has written.

(I have both - on vinyl. . . but my feeling is that you shouldn't feel like rushing to get it.)

Hecubus...you magnificent bastard. I HAVE your book!

Hecubus...you magnificent bastard. I HAVE your book!

Fuck yeah!

You'll be the... [counts fingers] ...uh, seventh Buffista to read it. But the first to read it in Book Form.

Also? Thank you. Thanks to everybody who bought it.

The People's Choice Music.

The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commericals and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece.

You really must hear "The Most Unwanted Song." It's definitely...different. ("The Most Wanted Song" is sickeningly awful.)

I'm only about four or five minutes into it and already I've laughed out loud four times....

Dave Soldier, who "composed" those songs, is also responsible for the very cool Thai Elephant Orchestra.

OK, I've added "The Most Unwanted Song" to my iTunes and gave it one star. Hopefully at some point, maybe years from now, it will come up on random play and cause much confusion....

There's a video of Stephin Merritt doing an accoustic version of "The Nun's Litany" from the new Magnetic Fields album. [link]