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A Message from Salvatore

We have recently revamped Salvatore Speaks. To enhance the blogging experience of our site's visitors we have applied a new, chic look to the page while adding a couple new and exciting features.

In addition to keeping our fingers on the pulse of the New York Mets Baseball Club as we enter the "dog days of summer," Salvatore will continue to raise awareness and promote discussion (no, rogue leaders are still not invited) of the numerous important happenings around the world of sport and American politics. It is also our pleasure to welcome, with open arms (ala John McEnroe-Roger Federer style), a new weekly section entitled Getting Squirrely: Hobbie's Weekly Hits from the Gong.

Friday, July 25, 2008

You Want It? You Del-gad-it! Getting Squirrely Is Back for Week Three

To truly "Get Squirrely" is to sink into oblivion into the sounds gravitating toward your ears. The cuts this week, in my humble opinion, will do nothing more than surrender that kind of experience. In this initial cut I give you an this artist who came upon an album while pulling a "Thoreau" in the woods. The sound is simple yet true and while segregating yourself in a cabin for months isn't necessarily for everyone it worked for troubadour.


Bon Iver - "Flume"




While not a completely fresh cut - this song debuted in the fall of 2006 - the artist, Cold War Kids, exhibited a piano-infused number that will long stay in your musical conscious for days to come if not longer. Serenading over keys about "Vietnam and Fishing Trips" this track exposed the rangy and Robert Plant-like vocals of lead man Nathan Willett. To quote the Los Angeles foursome it embodies both the "Joy" and "Misery" of the indie rock landscape.


Cold War Kids - "Hospital Beds"

Posted by Ralph Salvatore at 6:36 PM

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