The International House of Bacon

I love my satellite radio, have I ever mentioned that?

* Switches - “Drama Queen”: At least to my ear, this band is like the perfect hybrid between the Dandy Warhols and Electric Light Orchestra, and I’m in love with this song. Great, wonderful British indie rock all around, and they appear to be consistent from the two songs I’ve heard so far. Really good stuff.

* Roky Erickson - “I Walked With a Zombie”: Okay, yeah, I’m roughly 30 years behind on this one, at least, but goodness. I knew that R.E.M. covered it way back, and thought it was something silly, and then Elf Power covered it at the show I went to last month which reminded me that they did a version of it (and quite a good one at that), and that caused me to explore Erickson a bit more. The most annoying part of this? You cannot find a studio version of this song on CD anywhere in print at present. You cannot buy it from the Amazon mp3 store, you cannot get it on iTunes. That’s incredible to me. Dear record companies - don’t complain about theft when you’re not making music available to people. Or something.

* Death Cab for Cutie - “I Will Possess Your Heart“: Considering the bizarro “rape rock” allegations concerning the Decemberists, this song just makes me wonder whether Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard have a secret competition to see who can make the creepier song. I think Meloy needs to counter with a ditty about Chtuhlu before it’s too late.