Musings

I HAD NO IDEA I COULD DO THIS UNTIL JUST NOW!!!

We’re returning to post-grunge nineties american rock-ville today because there’s been a lot of pretty music up here lately:

Dashboard Prophets – Ballad For Dead Friends

The link is to the Audio/Video Download page on the band’s official site, where they’ve kindly linked directly to the mp3s so I can do what I just did! (see above – I’m excited.)

Dashboard Prophets - Burning Out The Inside

It’s dark, it’s angry, it’s depressive – everything one would expect, no…demand from a track that provided part of the soundtrack to episode 1.2 – ‘The Harvest’ of Joss Whedon-created cult TV geniosity (if urbandictionary.com says it’s a word, it’s a word) of a series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.

If I’m honest, it doesn’t appear at the point I thought it did and the track I was actually thinking of is ‘Job’s Eyes’ by Far – playing in 1.6 – ‘The Pack’ when newly hyena-possessed Xander and his pack of reprobates are introduced into the episode. Equally dark, angry and depressive but also a little scary.

The reason I love this (Job’s Eyes) so much is that in that moment, my whole perception of Xander’s character – previously so geeky/bashful/harmless – did a complete ‘invert colours’.

I’m thinking I might have to post Sprung Monkey at some point….