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Ookla the Mok news!
« on: April 21, 2005, 10:33:03 AM »
Ookla the Mok has a new CD out called Dave Lennon. It's a rather odd collection of tracks. You can hear some of them (and buy the CD) at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ooklathemok05

I really, really like the "spot the cat" song. Anyway, I'll tell you all what I think when the CD arrives...
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2005, 01:58:06 AM »
Cool cat song.   ;D
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2005, 11:14:50 AM »
Ok, so I've scoured their site and stuff to hear some of the Mok's. Cool stuff it is.
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2005, 11:18:04 PM »
The cat song's lyrics are taken from Data's poem in a TNG episode, though stanzas have been reordered to better places.

Well. The CD is definitely only for HARDCORE Ookla fans. If you do not already have every single other CD Ookla has made, don't get it. The couple live recordings aren't any better than stuff on the original Rand and Adam tape, and a lot of the tracks are looks at songs in various stages of completion. A couple are alternate versions or alternate songs planned for their other CDs that they decided to drop in favor of other things, and in every case they made the right decision.

The Spot song makes the CD purchase worth it for me, but if it didn't have that one I would've been disappointed, and that's saying a lot.
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2005, 10:41:44 AM »
Wait. Ookla, your name isn't original? But borrowed from a singer?

Here I was thinking that your name was so creative...

I feel betrayed.
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2005, 11:08:27 AM »
It's from a BAND, which in turn got it's name from a cartoon character.
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2005, 03:42:28 PM »
I recognized the Spot song afterwards.  It kept running through my head... an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature... that sounds familiar....

(I still haven't bothered to look up "endothermic," though.  It means heated from the inside?  Warm-blooded?)
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2005, 12:55:18 AM »
Sorry to shatter your misconception...

It's an obscure enough band that it works for me...and I am historically one of the biggest fans...
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2005, 02:15:45 AM »
*Chimera picks up the pieces of her shattered misconceptions*

Actually, don't worry about it. I mean, that was so, like, yesterday. I'm totally over it now.  ;)
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2005, 03:10:13 AM »
Endothemic means warm-blooded, yes.
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2005, 05:30:36 PM »
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I recognized the Spot song afterwards.  It kept running through my head... an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature... that sounds familiar....


I used to be able to recite the whole thing.  Can still do most of it.  Yeah I'm a trek geek.

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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2005, 06:24:40 PM »
Well now I can sing the whole thing!! :D
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2005, 01:56:53 AM »
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...and I am historically one of the biggest fans...

Not only that but he was one of several people named Peter who were thanked in one of the albums, as I recall.  
The song kind of reminded me of TMBG's "Dinner Bell."  
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2005, 02:01:14 AM »
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a new CD out called Dave Lennon.

Is he happy that he's in this song?
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Re: Ookla the Mok news!
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2005, 05:37:12 PM »
printed on the CD itself (it's one of those black cds like Sucking Out Loud) are the words "Dave Lennon Better Be Happy"
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