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The Geeks Were Right

I'm totally a fan of The Faint. They have a new album, Fasciinatiion, due to drop August 5, 2008. They make me dance like crazy and make my head go just like that. Uh huh. This is their first single, and it sounds very much like you'd expect a Faint single to sound like :)

Of particular note to one I Play The Hits author, J Beaman is that the original name and formation of The Faint was a Norman Mailer reference! They were to be called Norman Bailer, and to have had Mr Bright Eyes himself, Conor Oberst in the band. But luckily for us, they did it on their own! Credit the omnipresent Wikipedia for said factoid

Weirdly, they seem to have played some variant of this single as early as 2006 (see video on YouTube here), but the below version is waaayy better now :)

They left original label Saddle Creek seems and are on their own as blank.wav, surely a reference to their earlier album "Blank Wave Arcade." (duh).

July 15, 2008 · permalink · by oof