Yacht "See A Penny, Pick it Up"

See what had happen was, Matthew told me about the "Miss You" connection before I'd even heard this song for the first time, so I can't prove it, but I totally would have gotten it by myself, I swear. Not because I'm some sort of musical genius or whatever, but because the melody of the best song off the Stones' last good album is one of the most infinitely whistlable things of the past 40 years, carved in my brain since I heard it on the radio growing up, like while riding in my mom's Mustang, for instance. And what Yacht did with that timeless progression of notes and pitches is to let it serve as the foundation (or, "foundate") for this little mantra, another one of the things that gets stuck in the noodle, but for more implacable reasons---it's not like you hear it on the radio. I did a Google, though, and along with the requisite Stereogum hit about three or four down, a history of the phrase comes up; I can make no assumptions as to its historical validity, but it's fun nonetheless, especially when it brings up Wiccan rituals. So perhaps on purpose but probably not, Yacht crafted a hybrid song (mp3) that fits together two seemingly disparate earworms from the past century of American popular culture; like the result of a random Wikipedia search-as-a-songwriting-dare.

I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real is their album, and it's really expensive on Amazon. Here's Yacht's Myspace, and also Yacht's guestlist feature on Pitchfork.

A PERSONAL NOTE, BUT SUPER COOL REGARDLESS: Forrest won the top prize at Houston's Visual Arts Alliance Juried Exhibition! For this painting.