Lucas posted recently about a horrible song he heard by Donovan. Here's an interesting factoid: former hometown St. Louis Cardinals phenom-turned-bust Donovan Obsourne was actually named after the same Donovan who sung Hurdy Gurdy Man. They don't just have the same name, his mom actually was a fan of Donovan and decided to name her newborn son after him. I wonder if teenage pregnancies in 2002 will result in a glut of children born next year named Avril...

I still have not purchased the new Zwan album, but now I have a good reason for it. It seems that somewhere between the masters getting recorded and the albums getting pressed someone turned the volume up too loud, resulting in noticeable clipping during a lot of the songs. People online have actually taken screenshots of the wave files from the album in CoolEdit Pro and you can clearly see that a) these people have way too much time on their hands and b) the album was apparently mixed by a deaf person.

Speaking of (tone)deafness, this morning I was once again subjected to the Dixie Chicks' painful butchering of Landslide, a song that was already covered successfully by another band 8 years ago. Fleetwood Mac did a good job with the original, and the Smashing Pumpkins did a good job with it despite the fact that a guy was covering a song originally song by a girl. So how is it that the Dixie Chicks took a soulful ballad and added an ascending chorus of "uh-uh, Uh-Uh, UH-UH" that sounds like the freaking Teletubbies?