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"The Unseen Tears of the Albacore" - Vandals

by Max on Thu 31 Dec 2009 12:27 PM PST | Permanent Link

Hey, if no one is even reading this thing anymore, I'm gonna post more Vandals songs. Who's gonna bitch?

For Christmas a co-worker (or as Scott Adams likes to say, cow-orker) gave me a $50 Amazon gift code. Yeah, I know, cow-orkers usually aren't that generous. But I guess he was overcome with the holiday spirit, and I got to reap the rewards. Huzzah! And I didn't get him anything. I suck like that. But I'll be sure to get him something good next year. In any event, I used the gift code to pick up, among other things, the Vandals DVD Live at the House of Blues, so now I have the Vandals on the brain. More than usual, I mean.

You may have heard some people, stand-up comics and what not, make note how we lament the plight of dolphins and whales while saying nothing about the tuna? Well, there was a Vandals song written about that very issue, called "The Unseen Tears of the Albacore." It's featured on the live DVD as well as the 2002 album Internet Dating Superstuds, which I happened to download from Amazon a year ago today. Yeah, I just noticed that when I went to grab the album image.

So I guess having Vandals-related New Year's Eves is slowly becoming a tradition. Maybe next year I'll download another album, or buy another concert DVD. Or perhaps I'll just vandalize something.

Hear "The Unseen Tears of the Albacore" on YouTube.

Watch the Live at the House of Blues segment with the "Freese-Cam."

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Some of my online cohorts at the Songfight community decided to create blogs to highlight songs they like. I am now doing it as well, because I am a total lemming.

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