Sunday, April 19, 2015

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day; SKApril!

Edna's Goldfish, "Sunrise to Sunset" from Before You Knew Better… (T.L.A.M.)

Skammentary: Edna's Goldfish are another Skaffirmative Action band, not because they aren't a fun ska band, but because the competition for SKApril's thirty R.B.D.S.O.T.D. slots is fierce & capricious—fierce because there are sixty bands that have contributed at least one song in these first five years of SKApril, with more bands being added every year (at least two, & possibly three this SKApril), & forty-five bands that have contributed more than once; capricious because a song that might appeal to your humble narrator on one day could well be overshadowed on another, leading to an otherwise worthy effort being excluded from that SKApril. It must also be noted that Edna's Goldfish's first two contributions, "Veronica Sawyer" in '11 & "I'm Your Density" in '12, stand head & shoulders above the rest of their work. That's not a knock on "Sunrise to Sunset," that's just the way it is.

"And then I saw you there will a tear in your eye,
You said it was because of that other guy…

"But then you called me and told me it's over."

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