Mouth Off 11.08.09
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Hey listeners! We had a tremendously fun weekend at SoJam. It was a thrill to interact with so many of you and to meet so many new friends. Stay tuned next week for a more complete wrap-up of the event, complete with audio clips of some of our favorite moments. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this week’s show!
My New Boyfriend Christopher is crushing BIGTIME on the voice, creativity, and accomplishments (and face) of Joseph Bates.
Listener Mailbag Another take on why the ICCA West keeps dominating the competition, a re-hash of the boys’ review of Basix Diversity and the role of original music in pro a cappella, and a sleewww of comments and emails trying to convince Christopher that the a cappella community can take ownership of the hit Fox show Glee.
Young and Original “As You Go” by the Duke Pitchforks is an incredible example of students writing great original a cappella music.
Music from the Future Though the album won’t be released for a couple more weeks, Dave gazes into his crystal ball and predicts that the University of Michigan Dicks & Janes’ new album Acousticophilia will be extremely not terrible.
Album Review Brandeis VoiceMale’s latest release Suit Up. offers some of the best solos the boys have ever heard from an all-male college group. Christopher isn’t in love with the song selection, which of course means Dave is. Both agree that the arrangements are sometimes too thick like a long, heavy meal. Christopher wants a salad.
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Awesome episode! Thanks for the Dicks and Janes shout out! (Yes, you get cool points for being our friends on facebook
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We’re linking to you on our home page right now!
Danny
Yes, I was laughing THAT loud at you Chris
I’d just like to say thank you to Mr. Yin and Mr. Yang for an extremely not terrible review that did not make me want to vomit all over my floor.
But in all seriousness, I and the rest of VM past and present truly appreciate the intelligence and candor with which you approached our album. We are very proud to hear that two of the biggest aca-nerds in the business think the album is great, and even CARA worthy!
Hope SoJam was great for both of you, and I look forward to hearing the wrap-up next weekend.
I’m gonna go make a steak salad now,
~ Doug Friedman
President ‘10
Brandeis VoiceMale
http://www.brandeisvoicemale.com
I had no idea that “As You Go” was an original song! I never had the liner notes to the album, so I always assumed it was a Muse cover or something. WOW my mind is even more blown.
Thanks so much for the shout out! I’m definitely going to post it up on Twitter and Facebook.
Working on “As You Go” was sublime, much like the experience we had working on “Nevermind” (also penned by Bates/Booth) from the Forks’ previous album. Loving the JosephBates love
With all due respect (and much Brandeisian love) to VoiceMale’s overall accomplishment here, is it fair to call “Time (Bring It On)” an “original” without the obvious caveat that the everything except the lead vocal is Seal’s “Bring It On”? (It’s still an impressive layering of original material over a “sample”, of course.)
They did list it as such in the liner notes. I’m the one who called it an original. I like what they did with it, so I just felt like over-touting it.
All due credit to Seal and props to VM for being clear in giving credit.
–DB
Another great episode. I can’t wait for the SoJam wrap-up. Wish I could have been there!
Wow, an hour long show! Now that’s a lot of steak… *grin*
I was thinking about your food analogies and the two versions of “Where’s The Love”, and this is what I came up with: Voicemale gave Tat Tong a big bowl of strawberries, and he gave them back strawberry shortcake. I think it was right of them to include both, because sometimes you don’t want shortcake, you just want a dish of strawberries in their clean honest goodness. With a little Clark sugar or whipped cream. And without strawberries you can’t make strawberry shortcake.
Or maybe, to bring back your food analogy of choice, it’s all beefcake.
WOOOHOO DICKS AND JANES LOVES ALL NIGHT YAHTZEE. ALWAYS AND FOREVER.
FACEBOOK FRIENDS 4 LIFE.
love,
debs sacks