![]() My husband and I have been together almost our entire adult lives, and The New Pornographers have been a constant part of our soundtrack. Every member of the large, collaborative entity that is The New Pornographers were firing on all cylinders, and the result is both a classic piece of indie history and a timeless collection of sounds that are still inspiring artists and bands who found them the same way I did. We are finally going to see them again in Cincinnati next week, and while I will miss Bejar’s songs and the way his voice can lounge on top of the music or be a bullet through a verse, I am excited to feel the joy that is their live shows again.Įlectric Version is one of the best power pop albums of all time. Newman quipped “did I mention he’s an alcoholic?” as Bejar left the stage. We saw them live and bounced ecstatically and shouted “like a bat of hell ” with everyone else in the packed room as they played one of Bejar’s best songs ever, “Ballad of a Comeback Kid,” then laughed when A.C. ![]() We dove into A.C.’s unique lyricism and fantastic ability to create characters. We aggressively bopped our heads to the hardest song on the album, “It’s Only Divine Right ” as it ended in an explosion of shredding guitars and shattering drums. Newman, Neko Case, and Dan Bejar,(and mourned when Bejar became less involved). ![]() We harmonized to the no’s on Dan Bejar’s “Testament to Youth in Verse.” We marveled at the perfect balance struck on this album between the 3 pillars of the band: A.C. We looked up the lyrics to “The Laws Have Changed” because we couldn’t tell if they were singing “fellow” or “pharaoh” (it’s the latter). We sang the outro to “Out From Blown Speakers” as loud as we could. We danced around our bedroom to “All For Swinging You Around”, admiring Neko Case’s pure singing voice and the power pop riffs. ![]() We put New P (our nickname for them) songs on our wedding playlist. We were young, maybe too young for some, but it didn’t matter. Electric Version by The New Pornographers Eventually, we couldn’t say goodnight anymore. We bought every album that we could get our hands on and listened to them on our adventures and late into the night until I absolutely had to say goodnight and get out of his car to go inside. From the drums that kick off “The Electric Version” to the last chorus of the sing-a-long pop gem of “Miss Teen Wordpower” I saw him go from a person in love trying to like everything the other one likes to a genuine fan of the band. I knew The New Pornographers would win him over with their catchy hooks and anthemic choruses. Then he would ask me what I was doing, and we would talk about music until the whirring stopped and I kissed him good night.Ī few years later, Electric Version was one of the albums I made the guy I was dating listen to. I’m sure that night, like every Saturday night when I felt the freedom of no bedtime and the peace of a quiet house, he came in and hugged me before trying to wash the ink off of his calloused hands. I was most certainly still scanning for more information about this Canadian band and waiting for the CD to be finished when my Dad came home at 2:30 in the morning from his night shift as mailer and machine worker at our local newspaper. I can still hear the whirring sound of the album being burned onto a blank CD, hoping the noise wouldn’t wake up my little sister, who was little enough to have a bedtime on the weekends. It might have been on Emusic, it might have been on some niche music forum, and I probably downloaded this album illegally using Napster or Kazaa late on a Saturday night when no one else was using the family PC. I found them, how I find everything now, online. They are one of the first bands that I found outside of the radio and MTV. The New Pornographers are a foundational band for me. Home > It Holds Up: The New Pornographers – ‘Electric Version’ It Holds Up: The New Pornographers – ‘Electric Version’ na ajik eoridago malhadeon yalmiun yokshimjaengiga. tteollineun nae ipsureun paran bitkkal pado gata neomu nolla beorin naneun amu maldo haji motago hwareul naelkka useo beorilkka saenggakadaga Yeah eoridago nolliji marayo sujubeoseo maldo motago eoridago nolliji marayo seucheo ganeun yaegippuningeol. eolgureun ppalgaejigo nollan nuneun keodaraejigo. oneureun wennirinji saranghae hamyeo Kiss-hae jueonne. na ajik eoridago malhadeon yalmiun yokshimjaengiga.
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