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So, How Does It Look from the Stars?
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AKA 'Penthouse.' A lo fi dream pop meditation on class, identity, and dharma... you know, the usual.
poor boy penthouse rich girls
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mutant roots pop pioneer one blue nine draws from a genre-busting palette of electronic, blues, hip-hop, dub, funk, and even country influences
here at Soundclick. -- a highly informal musical autobiography
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Genre
Alternative • Other Alternative
Charts
Peak #61
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
TK Major
Rights
2002, TK Major
Uploaded
March 20, 2003
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:05
Story behind the song
A sorta-trippy, sorta-dreamy meditation on class, identity, and fate. one blue nine's TK says: "In the movie Dead End, there's a scene where the poorest kids in depression era New York look up from their dingey tenement street to a glittering cocktail party on the penthouse terrace of a nearby riverside highrise... and even though the guests arrive at the guarded entrance across the street from the kids, that penthouse is scraping the stars... I wanted to play on the image of the penthouse as a sort of Mt. Olympus -- I wanted the refrain to hint at that whole classic tragic mortal-deity love affair and to play on the ambiguity like a classic broadway show tune. I wanted to, but I ended up with this."
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Kim Riemer
Feb 13, 2011
Dude, I'm totally diggin this tune. Really sweet guitar playing, and the vocal totally fits the song!!
Hippies use side door
Feb 15, 2009
Great tune thanks for creating it Peter
Strummergurl
Oct 31, 2008
Dreamy...jazzy...haunting music to my ears. Really diggin this tune. Wonderful production, love the lyrics and the vocals.....really reminds me of John Lennon. Can't wait to make it back to hear another one from you. Thanks for sharing your talent here, take care. ~strummergurl~