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Rockers love Bookworms and Sexy Librarians
May 15, 2008
I like to listen to the internet radio while I'm editing reviews. It helps me concentrate by blocking out distracting office noise. My favorite station is Fordham University's WFUV.org, which plays an eclectic mix of world music, folk, blues, jazz, and rock. A few weeks ago I was busy editing while listening to a sweet love song when the lyrics suddenly grabbed my attention:
"sweetest little bookworm
buried underneath is the sexiest librarian
take off those glasses and let down your hair for me."
Turns out this tune is called "Librarian" , a track from the forthcoming fifth album of a Kentucky-based band called My Morning Jacket, who are on this month's cover of Spin Magazine. Although the album Evil Urges won't be released until June, there have been advance leaks of its songs and rave reviews,
including plenty of plugs for "Librarian" like Stereogum.com's Premature Evaluation:
"What else? How can you not love the reverberant sexy librarian story, "Librarian" and its patient scene sketching (the insects, the stairwell, and the hall of books, "since we got the Interweb, these [books] hardly get used..."), dissection of mirrors ("when God gave us mirrors he had no idea"), Karen Carpenter (see mirrors), and plea for the bookworm to please take off her glasses and let down her hair. It's Kristofferson smooth, then they bring on the sleigh bells and strings"
The band plays Radio City Music Hall June 20 in a sold-out show, although the perfect venue for them could be this weekend's librarian-centric Dance Dance Librarian Revolution party in Brooklyn (thanks for the head's up, Raya!).
Posted by Wilda Williams on May 15, 2008 | Comments (0)