I was always a little afraid to give Australian artist Courtney Barnett a try. I can't give you a good reason why. I think her debut album - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - was so universally acclaimed that I was intimidated to even give it a try.
I need not have been. As part of my 1000-albums-in-a-year project, I listened to that album.
That album is one of the best I have ever heard, and certainly the best I've heard so far on my list. This fun song was a highlight for me.
In a first for this blog....
The way a music video usually works is - the artist is lip-syncing and the studio version of the song is dubbed over top - and they certainly did the dubbing for this video...... but it wasn't a lip-sync. She REALLY performed the song, and posted the original recording as well.
Shockingly, Barnett and her band have performed this song A LOT, and they all sound impeccable and pretty much the same....
Except for this one, an acoustic version by just her, which is somehow just as thrilling.
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