That Very Cool Things site that they reference is actually my friend's store. Very cool for getting anime, Japanese movies, j-pop, and the like. Thus the name.

Just not the same. Of course, for such a little-known song, there's been an awful lot of renditions. We hvae the Modern Lovers version, which is the original. I think there were a couple others, too.

John Cale's version is pretty famous. There was also a very good version done for REPO MAN, but I can't remember (if I ever knew) who did that version. I found Bowie's version AWFUL! And I like most of that album otherwise.

The Repo Man soundtrack version is the version by Burning Sensations.

I finally head the John Cale version recently, after hearing the Modern Lovers and Burning Sensations versions about a billion times. I didn't like the Cale version at all....

And FAQ Girl and I listened to David on NPR yesterday and I laughed at the buffista-shout-out story David told about the "friend" buying a Go-Betweens CD and the clerk getting all excited.

That was for you, tina! Happy Thanksgiving. Miss you.

I'm listening to it right now AIFG!! Power to music lovers! I miss you, too. Happy Thanksgiving Weekend Still Kinda. I loooved the shout out and the great interview. I totally e-mailed the link to some friends all "the girl in the record-store story is MEMEME - I'm famous!"

Sidenote: I just finished up a Turkey-Day-Weekend season 7 marathon watch (overall, much much better on rewatch but the commentaries were again lackluster). And decided to read some old Buffy posts from TT (starting with Mejia's Mejia of The Gift previously-on since I hadn't seen it on original airing and just finished up my marathon with it from the easter egg on the S7 DVDs. Amazing. (Mejia's scary and wonderful brain, I mean.)). Anyway. I was loving me some end-of-season-5 Buffista posts and then I caught up over here and saw this. I feel all glowy.

Mr. Boucher, Jon's site with the linernote links is [link]

This is so very cool: Music mimics the composer's native language.

And this: The building blocks of music are to be found in speech.

Some interesting stuff in those articles, although musicologist FAQ Girl says that this

musicologists have long emphasized that while each culture stamps a special identity onto its music, music itself has some universal qualities. For example, in virtually all cultures sound is divided into some or all of the 12 intervals that make up the chromatic scale -- that is, the scale represented by the keys on a piano.

is a gross generalisation.You need only look to Eastern countries like India to find huge exceptions to that "universal" quality.

FAQ Girl's a musicologist? How hot is that?

And well, it does say virtually all, so I guess its ass is covered.

I don't think those billion other people think the rest of the world counts as "virtually all".

How hot is that?

HOTTTTT!!!!!1!

OK, tina, thanks to your rec I have ordered the Built to Spill CD! (New music, yay!)