Inara George , “Turn On/Turn Off”. I guess you’d put her in the folk/pop category, which ain’t generally my thing, but I’ve found myself entraced by her.
I also just got the soundtrack to Donnie Darko (excellent even if you don’t like/get the movie), and Mike Andrews “Cellar Door”, “Waltz in the 4th Dimension”, and “Did You Know Him?” which serves as a lead-in to Gary Jules haunting “Mad World” are all running around in my brain right now.
But anytime I hear “Holiday In Cambodia” (a jukebox favorite at the Good Luck Bar) it sticks in my head for hours.
I’d read where Benny & Bjorn has allowed her to sample the keyboard riff from “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a man after midnight)” and I wanted to see what she had done with it.
Surprisingly, it’s not that bad (as much as I hate to admit it).
Both are from the bands own webpage so they are legal =)
Very nice, listening to it as a tone poem [it is sung in german, which i am not fluent in] is pleasing, if you can read thetranslation of the lyric and understand the source materials, it is still very interesting=)
Interestingly (to me anyway), those two tracks are the ones that introduced me to and hooked me on those two bands.
Current favorite is Will You Smile Again by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, who top my list of coolest bandnames of all time.