Final Conchordance

For the final entry of New Zealand music month, I'm choosing an artist from the 2000s, and was wavering between two choices, either Flight of the Conchords (of HBO fame) or Wing (of South Park fame).

I still don't understand the whole "Wing" phenomenon (just like I don't get William Hung or Susan Boyle) so I'm going with the Conchords. I was an early adapter with these guys (check my archives), jumping aboard after their HBO concert in late 2006, almost a year before the series launched. I enjoyed the interplay between Bret and Jemaine, but was mostly impressed by the quality and variety of the songs.

Here's "Jenny", the first song in their HBO special that hasn't been released on an album or reprised for the series (yet). And it's only been viewed 7 million times on youtube (7,131,817 times actually), so it might even qualify as "obscure" by FOTC standards.



Flight of The Conchords have a new album called I Told You I Was Freaky coming out in October, featuring songs from the second season of the show. There's still a backlong of FOTC songs without proper studio versions, so hopefully they'll crank out some more songs now that the show is on the back burner (or off the stove).



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