i know, it’s old. and not vintage old. last season old. i don’t care. i’ve attempted mashups in the past, and failed gloriously. they are hard. and this is wondrous. i will whistle it all wheekend.-d

i’m a man who loves his covers. as luck would have it, i’m also rather fond of grapefruit, french and mooses, making this prolly the most fitting sotd ever. honestly, i think covering a song well is one of the hardest things you can do. done poorly, it’s embarrassing for everyone. but done right, it’s so right. it’s like adapting a book into a movie. striking a balance between respecting the original material and finding your own voice and all that. a good cover of a good song is usually a sign of a good musician. the sign of a great musician, however, is when you can take a song that maybe wasn’t so great originally and turn it into something spectacular. case in point. these guys are nuts. girlfriend + boyfriend + room full of instruments = righteousness. to really do the song justice, tho, you owe it to yourself to go to their youtube page and watch the VideoSong that accompanies the track. (VideoSongs are little music videos/pieces of performance art that accompany their tracks. they follow 2 rules: what you see is what you hear [no lip-syncing for instruments or voice], and if you hear it, at some point you see it [no hidden sounds].) pretty sweet stuff. -d

incidentally, this isn’t my favorite pomplamoose song. it’s this one. but i didn’t post it here b/c it’s for sale on their myspace page and these guys are talentatious and very deserving of your money and mine. (i think maybe they can’t sell the beyonce one cause they didn’t write it. or maybe cause they left out the unbearable bits.)