Keith Pille's Weekly Shuffle

Every week, I will fire up the Shuffle Songs option on my iPod; the first song to come up, no matter what it is, will get an instant, unvarnished review. We're at the mercy of random chance and the limits of my digital music collection. Let's see where this takes us.

Rock N Roll Radio V2
Derailleur, The Cat's Meow

Well, this is embarassing. Derailleur is my band... we've been recording for months, and I've got a bazillion different mixdowns of various songs on my iPod so that I can evaluate them and reevaluate them and agonize over which mix is exactly right (that's why there's a V2 at the end... it's just the second mixdown, not an attempt to sound like either a software release version or a German rocket).

So I suppose it was just a matter of time before one of them bubbled up in the shuffle. I feel a little silly, trying to review my own band's music. But a deal's a deal, I promised to say exactly what I think. So let's get on with a completely objective review:

Fuck! These Derailleur motherfuckers can really play! Jesus Christ! I have seen the future of rock and roll and its name is Derailleur. Can you believe the pipes on that guy singing? How about that fucking genius-level keyboard? Oh my god-- I'm so transported by the guitar that I think I just shit my pants. Did I shit my pants? Lemme check. Yes. I did. The guitar made me shit my pants. Well, it happens when you're dealing with otherworldly genius. Those goddamned drums! Man. It sounds like they got rocked so hard that they had to be stored in a lead vault afterwards. That's how you show the drums who's boss. Shit! Fuck! Goddamn! I struck gold! I struck it rich!

Let me put it this way: do you remember your first kiss? The first time you had sex? The first time you shot up with black tar heroin? That's this song, only with atomic rainbows and nuclear unicorns.

(here's the song in question, since it's not exactly widely available atthis point. You may want to slip on some Depends before you give it a listen.

Weekly Shuffle Scoreboard (Best to Worst):
1. “Rock N Roll Radio V2,” Derailleur
2. “John, I'm Only Dancing,” David Bowie
3. “Climbing up the Walls,” Radiohead
4. “That's When I Reach for My Revolver,” Mission of Burma