The Wily Filipino

Your New Favorite Song.

Soundtrack for an Imaginary Wes Anderson film, Track #8.

Every Wes Anderson film needs a good British Invasion song for the characters to run around pell-mell to, preferably in some narrow hallway. So here's The Move's 1967 hit, "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" -- a great running-around-pell-mell-to-for-quirky-characters song if there ever was one -- brought to you by Roy Wood and Company before he and Jeff Lynne (who was also in The Move) co-founded the Electric Light Orchestra.

There's no mistaking what the song's about, but it's remarkably free of any psychedelic filigree (no sitar, no phasing, no stereo trickery); it's straight-up guitar crunch and drum fills apparently nicked by Keith Moon for "I Can See For Miles."

Hear it (4.56 mb, mp3).

Posted by the wily filipino at November 24, 2005 01:11 PM