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Artist:  Unbunny
Song:   For The Mekons, Et Al
Plays:   0
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For The Mekons, Et Al.

Will Oldham is a fan of the Mekons after all, just like me. But Will doesn’t do things the easy way, so this tribute is twisting and turning and it’s not a straight tribute as such. Instead it is as if he’s tried to write a song the way the Mekons would, and I think he succeeded somewhat — they’re a hard band to mimic.

Listen to the recording of the Mekons Doctors Without Borders gigs in Chicago 2007 where Will and Ted Leo and some others took over for the missing Tom Greenhalgh (his wife was giving birth in London.) Downright brilliant stuff.

But this song is here performed by Unbunny. Don’t know if Jared Del Deo is a the Mekons fan, but that doesn’t really matter does it? It is a lovely rendition anyways.

Unbunny - Nothing Comes To Rest (by AOTHJan)

I don’t think this is an “official” video but that doesn’t matter. The images fit the song perfectly.

Artist:  Unbunny
Song:   Glacier
Plays:   10
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Unbunny - Glacier

I must have posted this one before, but there are more of you now and it’s still such a damn good song. Or album for that matter, so happy I got the deluxe vinyl reissue last year. Unbunny is not only a great band, they have what’s possibly the best name too.

Unbunny for me though is very much linked to snow. Walking down the road of Luthagsesplanaden, the snow making squeak noises when trampled underneath the boots, sun acting as a searchlight slowly sweeping across the landscape one meter an hour. Warm hat on the head and a fucking hot scarf several loops around the neck.  And I was happy. That what Unbunny reminds me of. One day, one day I will see them perform live.

You know the song Glacier by Unbunny. A few lines in that song describes this day pretty good.

We’re moving like glaciers now,
when we move at all 

and a bit later

Well, i waited for the weekend
but the weekend didn’t want me

It’s slow. Undead slow, almost down to a halt. Half past eight and I’ve assumed the clock should be well into the night. There is this restlessness combined with apathy, this ambivalence is probably what they built the movie Scanners on. Not that it give unbelievable headaches but in that it’s not fucking normal. On the other hand, normal seems to imply that the brain is made of cotton.

Unbunny:

Northeast mini-tour in March. Massive Euro-tour in May. Dates and venues posted soon.

Massive? Euro? Unbunny? These are things that when combined rises expectations and makes me want to run around in the room shouting “zOMG!” over and over again. The fanboy level will reach a critical mass.

Artist:  Unbunny
Song:   Glacier
Plays:   37
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Unbunny — Glacier. Listen, then you go and buy. When I heard the remaster I got goose bumps. Actual factual goose bumps. Smiled when I felt a slight shiver. It is what it is, I guess, and as such it’s far better than most other things recorded.

13:21

Unbunny - Black Strawberries Deluxe Edition LP
I’m speechless. Ryan Catbird, you’re an excellent human being for initiating this. Black Strawberries remastered on vinyl, download of mp3s, a cd with demos, t-shirt, and original art. Mind equals blown.

Unbunny - Black Strawberries Deluxe Edition LP

I’m speechless. Ryan Catbird, you’re an excellent human being for initiating this. Black Strawberries remastered on vinyl, download of mp3s, a cd with demos, t-shirt, and original art. Mind equals blown.

Five excellent phrases from Unbunny songs

  1. Massachusetts
    it’s the place where i was born
    In a mill town
    n the middle of a storm
    in the statasphere
    there’s a little ball of light
    it comes down into the earth
    when condistions are just right
    (Massachusetts)
  2. You could say
    you would say
    I’m like all of these
    decomposing leaves
    dark and heavy
    (I Knock Things I Haven’t Tried)
  3. Our lives are measured by the weekends
    said a weatherman to an anchor friend
    Feels like more if it feels like nothing
    and I am predicting rain again
    (Swans Are fainting)
  4. I’ve been seen out all alone
    past grocery stores and mobile homes
    beyond the glow of industrial parks
    where laundromats spin broken hearts
    Out among the powerlines
    things don’t always turn out fine
    There’s a message in this nursery rhyme
    (Nightwalking)
  5. I am a landscape typist
    when a landscape typist is nothing to even be.
    I’ll strike the ribbon
    with just the perfect keys
    (Landscape Typing)
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