Friday, June 9, 2006

Data-panic in the year '06 It all started when I decided to look up some information on the band the Pink Mountaintops because I like the song Cold Criminals allmusic ((( The Pink Mountaintops  So far so good, then I figured while I was at I ought to look up Black Mountain as well. As I was on mountains, and they did a song I liked though I couldn't remember its name allmusic ((( Black Mountain . Thats when the trouble started. Odd I though I must have done something wrong I seem to be back on the same page. I'm looking at the same names, I'm seeing a picture of that guy again. I must have accidently triggered one of those internet Namespace panics which leads to and infinite cascade of the same (or similar) page. I tried again Pink Mountaintops  Black Mountain It became worse as references to jerk with a bomb and one easy skag kept emerging. Gradually it became better or at least clearer when it became apparent Vancouver was a connecting point among all these anomilies. Must be something in the water, which would explain why everyone in the New Pornographers is in two or three other bands   Eventually I resolved that Black mountain and the Pink Mountaintops are mostly the same band Pink Mountaintops And Black Mountain Stay Busy. at least with same Steve McBean singing writing and guitaring in both bands. Additionaly abstracting to the existence of an 'a' band and a 'b' band morphing from previously unharmonized names to their current harmonized forms with as I read it described (i think in the Pitchfork review of Axis of Evol: Pitchfork ) Pink Mt.tops as McBean's "summer band". Got it - couldn't be clearer.  We loved our winters high on crime And the hearts And the hearts we left behind... 11:57:32 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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