Yesterday, a friend of mine recommended where I should start in the huge collection of Aesop Rock that I'd acquired. (Through strictly legal means, of course.) Labor Days just floored me. I have seen too many profiles who say they like all kinds of music "except rap or country" and I'm telling you that this is the way to change that. But as long as I'm expanding my own horizons, I may as well go back to my roots as well. So, here are a few tracks about the working week.
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Aesop Rock was, depressingly enough, born the same year as I was, which goes to show you where a bit of talent and dedication can get you. I mean, sure, I could copy and paste a couple lines from the wikipedia article, but it would just be fronting for the fact that I know almost nothing about this guy. So no plagiarizing, no quoting, just go read it yourselves.
The Bonzo Dog Band (alternately The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band) were sort of a British counterpart to Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Alternately, you could think of the Bonzos as Monty Python to Zappa's Lenny Bruce. Both of them ended up making comic-pop because they couldn't really bring what they wanted to the public through their chosen medium. Both ended up poking fun at the establishment, but the Bonzos tended to use absurdity rather than irony to make their points. The Bonzos are the musical step daddy of They Might Be Giants, producing a lot of niche songs that would occasionally bleed over into a bit of attention on the pop scene.
And, as a bonus, Elvis Costello tells us all to sit the fuck down and get to work.
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