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| The Books – Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Sorry, I found a link. The researcher was William Labov, and the segment is here. Harriet's part comes on at 8:00. Imagine the part in the clip comes after the part you know in "Enjoy Your Worries..." and it makes sense.
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/990312.stories.html |
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| The Books – Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm sure the woman in the clip is a woman named Harriet, and she was being recorded as part of a linguistics study of people with different accents. I can't remember the researcher's name, but Harriet was being recorded without being told that it was for a study specifically for linguistics, so she was not inhibited. I know this because the story was on an NPR show called Lost & Found Sound (I think). Coincidentally, I had sampled her for one of my own songs. I didn't recognize the clip used in the song, so they must not have gotten the sample from the NPR show, but from the original recordings. I saw the movie Crazy Love, and I definitely would have recognized the clip from the song while watching the movie. |
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| The Handsome Family – The Giant of Illinois Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about Robert Wadlow, the tallest man to ever live, who was from Alton, Illinois. He did, in fact, die of a blister on his ankle. What a tragedy that the human giant was brought down at such a young age by an infection on his foot. |
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| The Handsome Family – The Bottomless Hole Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about Mel's hole, familiar to anyone who listens to Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show. It's a supposedly endless hole somewhere in Washington state. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel's_Hole |
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| The Spinto Band – Japan Is An Island Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The only thing that always bothered me about this song - You can't save games on Atari.
Also, the "For relax..." part, I believe, marks Albert's only appearance on the album, at least vocally. |
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