While I thoroughly enjoy Flight Of The Conchords as a television show, I’m pretty indifferent to the band itself. I have no desire to purchase their album, or drop $45 to see them in Portland, but if they released more songs like the excellent “Carol Brown” (with a video courtesy of Michel Gondry) then I just might change my mind.

Loyal to the quirky Conchords theme, “Carol Brown” pays tribute to various former girlfriends in a convenient list format—my personal favorite is “Britney, Britney hit me” which is an excellent, most likely intentional, play on Britney Spear’s “(Hit Me) …Baby One More Time”—only to have an oracle of ex’s voice their opinions as well. The whole thing is sort of similar to Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” or Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died,” but way less depressing. A few more songs like this and that $45 ticket isn’t going to seem like such a bad idea…

Link: Idolator

End Hits: We like Jemaine the best.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1cGoDns8wTA%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

6 replies on ““Who organized all my ex-girlfriends into a choir, and got them to sing?””

  1. $45? people are paying $200+ per ticket to sit in a room with a bunch of other fans and laugh at recycled material from the show. I don’t get it– I watch the show, and I like it well enough. But they’re not THAT witty or especially groundbreaking (and most of the season two songs seem sorta half-baked and forgettable).

    I think most of their appeal lies in their “indie heartthrob” status. Women find them adorable, and without that demand, they’d be nowhere.

  3. Haven’t watched the clip, but didn’t Zach Galifianakis do pretty much this same thing on his Comedy Central special, where all of his ex-girlfriends form an a capella group?

  6. I hear the Belle & S. influence too … maybe the line “Carol Brown took a bus out of town” reminds me of “Lazy Line Painter Jane” taking the last bus out of town.

    I love this show, and it become funnier once you’ve seen a few episodes and get to know the characters. It’s got a dry, absurdist air, sort of like “Arrested Development.” The two Conchords are funny, but the characters of Murray, Dave and (especially!) Mel are great. (And there are — cough — places to see it on the web if you don’t have HBO. Search for Project Free TV.)

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