Nov. 11, 2009 at 7:37pm with 1 note
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Track 1 - All Over Town by De Novo Dahl on Cats

We like this song! This album has a very strong start as a Category Two Victory even if it does veer back into Category One territory a little farther along.

Although the lyrics weren’t included, Lily tracked them down online because this song seems to have a lot to say but the vocals are kind of mumbly. Unfortunately for her, she’s taking a class on Heidegger and Derrida right now, so these lyrics:

Your hands are controlled by the whispers 
and the whispers are controlled by the things that you hear

Your actions are controlled by 
oh oh the language and the language is controlled by 
oh oh the hunger that you feel

kind of distracted her from the song at hand and reminded her that she has a paper to write on Derrida and that is frightening. 

Carlyn: It sounds… sort of Ok Go-ish or like Spoon, but with some added 80’s. I could be jazzercizing right now.

Lily: I can see it, but I don’t know, there’s some sort of almost sexual depth in the vocals and the lyrics that doesn’t lend itself to that comparison.

[this is where we got distracted by photos of cute boys. this happens sometimes. we apologize for the interruption, but seriously, there were cute boys to look at on the interwebs. what do you expect?]

7:32pm
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This is our very first (and only, so far) Category Two Victory! We are very excited. It is a two-disc set called “Cats and Kittens” - one CD is Cats and the other is Kittens - by a band called De Novo Dahl. This doubles the victory, since it means we didn’t get one good CD for $1 but rather two good CDs for 50 cents each! Even better is the fact that this was actually a Category One Choice. All around, this has been our most rewarding purchase from The Bin. The album art and cover are entirely in two-tone pink. The song titles include “Doody-Ball Upside Down” “Sexy Come Lately” “Dinosaurs!” “Sexy Mr. Falcon Jive Mister” and “Turtle Italian.” We don’t have any idea how to classify the type of music on these CDs, as every song sounds somewhat different. Some songs sound very over-produced techno-electronic while others sound almost acoustic. Some songs have chorus-type vocals, some are completely solo vocalists. Some are fast, some are slow. I don’t think a genre exists that “Cats and Kittens” fits into. The album copy doesn’t offer any clues - it just lists the band members, the contact info for booking, and the typical accompaniment credits and band “thank you”s. We won’t waste any more time trying to describe this album - we’ll just start posting tracks.

This is our very first (and only, so far) Category Two Victory! We are very excited. It is a two-disc set called “Cats and Kittens” - one CD is Cats and the other is Kittens - by a band called De Novo Dahl. This doubles the victory, since it means we didn’t get one good CD for $1 but rather two good CDs for 50 cents each! Even better is the fact that this was actually a Category One Choice. All around, this has been our most rewarding purchase from The Bin.

The album art and cover are entirely in two-tone pink. The song titles include “Doody-Ball Upside Down” “Sexy Come Lately” “Dinosaurs!” “Sexy Mr. Falcon Jive Mister” and “Turtle Italian.” We don’t have any idea how to classify the type of music on these CDs, as every song sounds somewhat different. Some songs sound very over-produced techno-electronic while others sound almost acoustic. Some songs have chorus-type vocals, some are completely solo vocalists. Some are fast, some are slow. I don’t think a genre exists that “Cats and Kittens” fits into. The album copy doesn’t offer any clues - it just lists the band members, the contact info for booking, and the typical accompaniment credits and band “thank you”s. We won’t waste any more time trying to describe this album - we’ll just start posting tracks.