Word. I definitely think Rodney is into the clever nerd rock - They Might Be Giants, for sure, and maybe also Presidents of the United States of America (if he's heard them, he likes them), and some Belle and Sebastian (although he also hates a lot of their songs), and this Canadian alt/geek rock band that no one else in Atlantis has ever heard of.
He prefers the Cake version of I Will Survive to the Gloria Gaynor original, and he knows a lot of those funny-but-weird songs; Whatever by Liam Lynch, Your Horoscope For Today by Weird Al, Sadie Hawkins Dance by Relient K. He knows all the words to Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang, for reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, and wishes he didn't. College expanded Rodney's musical horizons.
He thinks The Postal Service is for posers. Toxic by Britney Spears is one of the catchiest songs Rodney will never admit to liking.
Sheppard likes Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson and Ben Folds and Ben Harper and James Taylor. In the eighties, he went through a Lynyrd Skynyrd phase; now he prefers Simon and Garfunkel. The coolest band on his iPod is probably R.E.M. or Cake, but he has a frighteningly large collection of country music to balance it out.
John thinks The Postal Service is too edgy.
Weir has recently rediscovered an interest in angry lesbian rock, which she had stopped listening to in her twenties. Right now, she's really into Dar Williams and the Indigo Girls, but her favorite song is I Touch Myself by the Divinyls. She didn't realize what the song was about for a while after it came out, and when she finally got it, she stopped humming the tune in public. In Atlantis, though, she sings it loudly in the soundproof shower and feels impossibly badass.
Elizabeth has no idea that there is a band named The Postal Service, and probably never will.
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Date: 2005-09-21 03:16 pm (UTC)From:Word. I definitely think Rodney is into the clever nerd rock - They Might Be Giants, for sure, and maybe also Presidents of the United States of America (if he's heard them, he likes them), and some Belle and Sebastian (although he also hates a lot of their songs), and this Canadian alt/geek rock band that no one else in Atlantis has ever heard of.
He prefers the Cake version of I Will Survive to the Gloria Gaynor original, and he knows a lot of those funny-but-weird songs; Whatever by Liam Lynch, Your Horoscope For Today by Weird Al, Sadie Hawkins Dance by Relient K. He knows all the words to Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang, for reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, and wishes he didn't. College expanded Rodney's musical horizons.
He thinks The Postal Service is for posers. Toxic by Britney Spears is one of the catchiest songs Rodney will never admit to liking.
Sheppard likes Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson and Ben Folds and Ben Harper and James Taylor. In the eighties, he went through a Lynyrd Skynyrd phase; now he prefers Simon and Garfunkel. The coolest band on his iPod is probably R.E.M. or Cake, but he has a frighteningly large collection of country music to balance it out.
John thinks The Postal Service is too edgy.
Weir has recently rediscovered an interest in angry lesbian rock, which she had stopped listening to in her twenties. Right now, she's really into Dar Williams and the Indigo Girls, but her favorite song is I Touch Myself by the Divinyls. She didn't realize what the song was about for a while after it came out, and when she finally got it, she stopped humming the tune in public. In Atlantis, though, she sings it loudly in the soundproof shower and feels impossibly badass.
Elizabeth has no idea that there is a band named The Postal Service, and probably never will.