Things That Make You Go Hum #7
Another classic from the ATL playlist vaults..
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In LA (1997)
Just before inevitably breaks we feel a pressing need to inject some summertimeÌýbeats into the ATL blog. We all know this could be as good as it gets for a while soÌýas its still remotely possible to chargrill something outside without the need forÌý2 puffa jackets and a ski hat, we thought you couldÌýmaybe indulge us..
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As the awesome canon is impossible to get past the editorial compliance robots, we thought we'd go for something that won't automaticallyÌýmake our P45s magically appear.
were an indie-electronica collective from Montreal Canada, a hippy hip-hop , if you will, whoÌýproduced a series of largely forgetable musical moments in a career which woud appear to survive to this day, though details are sketchy. However, their debut single 'Drinking in LA', released in Canada in early '97 was something of aÌý gem.Ìý
Its so it needs braces. The vocals are near on sublime, the beats roll hazily by and the lyrics are a mournful lament on passing youth and theÌýwasting of dreams as the stretch towardsÌýour thirties narrows.
It was released in the UK and Ireland in March 1999Ìýmaking aÌýmodest dent in the charts until a beer advert propelled it to the lofty heights of no.3. The band must have suffered vertigo.
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Comment number 1.
At 4th Jun 2009, keithbelfast wrote:chune. This is up there with Len's Steal My Sunshine and Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen,
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