Welcome to our MP3 OF THE WEEK page!
4/19/2001
Today is my birthday; I am feeling lazy and I didn't want to have to dig around for a cut so this week's MP3 is no big deal if you are already a die hard LSR fan. But for those of you that do not own our first (out of print) CD "Kilki", this will be a chance to hear the very first song that landspeedrecord! ever wrote. But first try to calm your shameful frisson of anticipation!
Back in the day, when LSR! first formed -- before we even had a name for the band and we practiced in a tiny basement on 23rd street and shared the rehearsal space with Seade (a now defunct Baltimore band) -- we wrote "Plaster". Since it was our first song ever it holds a special place in my heart. It is also the first cut off of our first record so it is a first in a lot of ways. Looking back on it, it is one of our better songs. I really like the way the parts dissolve from one musical passage to the next.
Nate Bell, who now plays bass in Lungfish, played lead guitar on this song. Marc Berrong, now in Slowjets, played drums. And of course Tom and I did the rest.
The song is about the downside of posessing psychometric skills. And as usual, a metaphor for other stuff.
What is psychometry? It is the ability to touch a happy meal and not feel happiness. It is the ability to buy a Rage Against the Machine album and not feel any rage at all, just plasticky emptiness. What the hell am I talking about you ask?
Who cares. Just download the damn song already.
