I am also on the love trains for Gotye and Kimbra. They toured together a bit here in the States in the last few weeks, and she was at SXSW.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
smonster - Apr 18, 2012 2:38:18 pm PDT #5017 of 6442
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2012 3:01:03 pm PDT #5018 of 6442
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is it wrong that I think I like the Glee version of "Somebody That I Used to Know" better than the Gotye version?
le nubian - Apr 18, 2012 4:10:26 pm PDT #5019 of 6442
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I like the harmonies better with the Glee version.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 7:35:24 pm PDT #5020 of 6442
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
billytea - Apr 18, 2012 7:48:03 pm PDT #5021 of 6442
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
I am eminently comfortable taking credit for your Kimbra-related viewing habits.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 8:17:00 pm PDT #5022 of 6442
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I particularly enjoyed watching her work the multitrack in this video: [link] She sings the way Brian May plays guitar.
Fiona - Apr 19, 2012 4:33:11 am PDT #5023 of 6442
I would suggest it's not just the singing so much as other things through which Gotye makes people think of Peter Gabriel and Sting. The songwriting: the unsympathetic first-person narrator (Big Time, Moon Over Bourbon Street, Every Breath You Take). And the video: it has so much in common with Sledgehammer that I think I'll show them one after the other in my music video lecture next semester.
It's a GREAT video.
Edited because I did a post-and-run and got some song titles wrong.
Jon B. - Apr 19, 2012 5:08:42 am PDT #5024 of 6442
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sean -- You've heard tUnE-yArDs, yes?
Sophia Brooks - Apr 19, 2012 5:15:17 am PDT #5025 of 6442
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Weirdly, this cover version also sounds a bit like Sting/Peter Gabriel to me: [link]
sumi - Apr 19, 2012 10:45:14 am PDT #5026 of 6442
Art Crawl!!!