Saturday, December 13, 2008

Streetlight Manifesto - If and When We Rise

Streetlight Manifesto is the band Thomas Kalnoky formed when he left Catch 22. I saw them live a couple years ago, and I couldn't believe how clean and complex the horn sections were in their songs. Here is a track from their first album where they find a way to reference Brahms in the middle of a ska song.

6 comments:

(Dan) said...

I am not nearly educated enough to hear Brahms in the middle of things.

Sycophantman said...

That song was so awesome that it rendered me sterile.

Yes? Yes.

Really?? It's true.

Werdna said...

I was actually a big Catch-22 fan (yes, the band, as well as the book), back in the day.

TomHat said...

ska killed my parents.

Joseph Blaschke said...

This was interesting. I liked the instrumental portions, but the vocals were really not very good. (I know ... who cares? it is ska.)

Joseph Blaschke said...

The Brahms reference is at about 3:26.