10 basically genius songs by Spencer Krug that I'm not otherwise going to write about here.

1 shut up i am dreaming of places where lovers have wings
2 a day in the graveyard ii
3 snake's got a leg ii
4 stallion
5 winged-wicked things
6 are you swimming in her pools
7 you are a runner and I am my father's son
8 fancy claps
9 the men are called horsemen there
10 trumpet trumpet toot toot

I've always been jealous of people that have favorite bands. When i was in high school I adored Bauhaus, but as an adult the arithmetic was never there for me and 1 band to come together. there was always the third album, or the last song on the first album, the fact that Isobell campbell quit, or the fact that they toured with bright eyes or that loveless was no where clsoe to isn't anything. Reasons to write a band off. while I could love a song or an album, bands had to asher to ridiculously high standards for them to sustain my admiration. sunset Rubdown could tour with rod Stewart and I couldn't give a fuck. I'm on their team for life.

This is a clip of a group of girls performing a cover of All Fires (From the Swan Lake album) on a cheap keyboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yukLWZzYirg

If I was a better writer I would write a novel based on this clip. It's so compelling to me. This song is, to my ears, the same type of ballad as "Us Ones In between". That's why I'm starting here. The thing is it's more complex to me. I can't quite explain it. Maybe it's the layered narratives. Maybe it's just the song. Maybe the messy Swan Lake production does something. I just love how each sentence follows the next. No matter what's in them I'm just totally in their thrall. I don't know what they mean and I don't care.

Here's the original
http://www.imeem.com/fritzenfrat/music/mEYJxNFh/swan_lake_all_fires/

Blair Mastbaum basically put me over the edge on this. For months I'd been meaning to put together a blog day about Sunset Rubdown, by which I which I mean in a more general sense, any music affiliated with Spencer Krug (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, Wolf Parade). When Dennis put together the day to commemorate the launch of Blair book "Us Ones In Between" (a sunset rubdown title) I just knew I really had to. It's still taken me a couple weeks. I'm easily distracted.