Showing posts with label Two Cow Garage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Two Cow Garage. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Trinomial Bands: Two Cow Garage


Two Cow Garage: No Shame

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Two Cow Garage is a rock band from Columbus, Ohio, that inserts elements of punk and country into their music. My friends tell me that they are one of the best live rock bands going these days, but unfortunately, I have yet to see them in the flesh. This song is off of their 2007 album III (not surprisingly, their third album), which is one of my favorite records from the last decade.

The song "No Shame" is essentially about quitting the band and getting a 9-to-5 day job.

Well now there's a guitar that's leaning on my wall,
the instrument of my ultimate downfall.
And notebooks scattered all over my floor.
Six hundred pages all filled with regret,
and hundreds of songs that I ain't finished yet,
and a job application getting harder to ignore.


I spent the last half of 2011 and the first half of 2012 unemployed, and this song became my theme song as I pondered changing careers. Fortunately, I did not have to change careers, and neither did Two Cow Garage. They are currently working on their sixth album (not entitled VI).

(Sorry this post is so short. Heat wave + no A/C = no brainpower for Aimz.)

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Horns: Two Cow Garage


Two Cow Garage - Mediocre

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Well, I guess since the owner's of The Star Maker Machine went and made me an "official" contributor I could make an effort to contribute 2 posts to each theme. I wish I could do more but I have a hard enough time posting once a day to ninebullets.net. This is a particularly difficult week cause, well, to be honest, I just don't listen to that much shit with horns. Fiddles, banjos, harmonicas, even freaking washboards and I could post 20 songs without even having to think about it. But horns? I've been marinating on it and I've found a few songs. I'm gonna try to get to them all and I am gonna start with one from one of my very favorite bands, Two Cow Garage.

Two Cow Garage is a band I can root for. Four completely awesome guys who write completely awesome rock music and play it with everything in them, regardless of the size of the crowd behind the monitors. If you can’t get behind that, then I gotta admit, I don't really like you. This song is the Two Cow version of a balld. It comes from their 2007 effort, "III" which was released on Suburban Home Records. Their 4th Album, titled "Speaking in Cursive", is scheduled to be released this October.