I made it back; was no big deal.

Guided by Voices - Bulldog Skin

Well, here it is, the first experimental post of what I hope will become a permanent feature at updog. I of course was drawn to the idea of doing an mp3 blog [for good examples, see Fluxblog, Said the Gramophone, or Mp3Blogs.org, which is an hourly-updated site that keeps track of what's posted on a large number of mp3 blogs]. In their best manifestations, they offer you the easiest way to learn about new music that you might like. Basically, an mp3 blogger posts a song or two every day, with an accompanying blurb/essay/explanation/etc.

So anyway, the problem with making use of updog for similar purposes has been that no one here has anywhere online to store the files (like a .mac account). But I've recently discovered this site called YouSendIt, which is a service that 'sends' files that are bigger than your attachment limit. Except it doesn't actually send the file; it stores it, and sends a url to the file to your recipient. I trust you've already figured out how that serves our purposes. Anyway.

Bulldog Skin is by no means some new musical discovery. It's on GBV's 1997 album Mag Earwhig!, and I think I bought it from HMV, burned it, and returned it in my second year at McGill. Anyway, I was walking yesterday, listening to my iPod (which must remain forever in shuffle mode due to my screen problem), and this song came on. For some reason I became immensely happy and really got into it. I was mouthing the words, sorta bopping down the street, even doing a little drumming on my hip. It's just a really good, exuberant, straight-ahead rock song, perhaps one of the most straightforwardly written and produced songs GBV released before they jumped to TVT.

Left-clicky doesn't work; right-clicky and then you can download. Download it, listen to it, let me know if there are any problems. And let me know what you think of the song. This could make things a bit more interesting around here.

P.S. Speaking of Said the Gramophone, there's a couple of good tracks up there now, one from the new Devendra Banhart album and a wicked-awesome 8 1/2 minute Can track.