We Are Scientists: Acoustic On BBC 1
Tonight is going to be a long night for me, as my Cinema As Art Form final is tomorrow at 2 and I’ve got five movies to re-watch and theorize about before that time, but as I wait for The Thin Red Line and Paths of Glory to become available, I thought I’d point you all to my favorite blog post of the day, We Are Scientist’s acoustic set on BBC 1, brought to you by Matt over at You Ain’t No Picasso. Be sure to check this out because this is certainly not your average acoustic set, as Keith and Chris from W.A.S. not only perform a completely reinvented and reworked version of their hit, “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt”, but they also drop on the unsuspecting public a cover of Sigur Ros’ “Hoppipolla”. “Hoppipolla” was my favorite song on the band’s incredible 2005 opus, Takk…, and while the cover certainly isn’t perfect, it’s awesome to hear “Hoppipolla” performed on a guitar and Keith actually does an at least mildly serviceable job of recreating Jonsi’s unparalleled vocals. Who knew that falsetto even existed? And it’s impressive enough that he could even remember the words, as memorizing lyrics in a language as perplexing and foreign as Icelandic is surely no easy task. So yeah, be sure to check out that set here, you won’t regret it. However, it’s time for me to plunge back into the fiery depths of studying hell, so wish me luck and I’ll be back tomorrow, most likely a fragile shadow of my former self.