Getting Squirrely with Hobbie (Volume I)

"Getting Squirrely" just isn't about music. It's about good music. It's about finding the right toppling arrangement of dominos to give you that feeling you can't quite explain - outside of gourmet food - that will keep you coming back for more, pressing play over and over again like an Al Davis Oakland Raiders' walk-through in the '70s. That's it. That's all I have to say and that's all I deserve to say. Great music was never based on bullshit. And shit was never exclusive to the bull.


"Led Zeppelin never made tunes that everyone liked ... they left that to the BeeGees." - Wayne's World, 1992.


Australia - the big brother bully of our favorite little kid brother, New Zealand, brings us this interesting "trio", an intriguing jam band permeating out of Perth (the fourth-largest Australian city and its fastest-growing hub) centered around lead and namesake John Butler, a green-friendly environmentalist as well as noteworthy musical axe-craftsman. In this cut from their 2004 album, "Sunrise Over Sea", Butler masters the quintessential jam-band hypnotic dance of just a few chords into a listening gem of ear-bending audible narcotic. Few lyrics, much feel and aura is the story of this track, that will sure to keep the music junkie's fancy should they explore the depth into this seemingly simple piece of structure.





The Pixies. An oft-overlooked band from Boston (easily overshadowed by groups with the same origin in the form of Aerosmith, the Dropkick Murphy's, its own namesake "Boston", and even Guster) this classic alternative rock outfit which saw its genesis with the help of punk and surf rock inspiration went on to influence such immortal musical forces like that of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana who often spoke of the debt he and his music owed to the New England songwriters. In this classic cut, the Pixies demonstrate the creative funk and clear force in their music that lead to such respect and recognition in the steepest of modern rock circles. It's near-neurotic, it's cool yet psychotic - you can see in this song how the Beantown foursome made a simple bassline and some skinematic, satanical caresses biblical lyrics into a song that you just might not be able to play only once.

p.s. My girlfriend got me squirrely about this song. She hates it how I love it.