Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.
– from Tom Waits interviews himself. Read it all here.

If you took one of the biggest party anthems from the past year and strip out all the party from it, maybe bring it down to the barrio with an shoe gaze kind of emptiness… that would super suck right?

Fingerbanger 1: Panda Riot – Paper Planes (M.I.A. Cover) (download)

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Today I am kinda sleepyhead. Not like this song. This song is catchy and maybe mastered poorly(? maybe its just my ears). But Passion pit is cool with good pop sensibility that kinda sorta reminds me of the first time I heard the Eels, and if thats any indication, this will be licensed for a movie in 3…2…1….. Check out their myspace for other good tuneage.

Fingerbanger 2: Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (download)

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How did this get on Fingerbanger Friday? Um… I guess I’m digging some pop music this week. Plus, everyone likes when people sing in a round… its fun! Like grade school music class, and I’m playing the wood block! You can play that washboard thing. Myspace them.

Fingerbanger 3: Dirty Mittens – White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes Cover) (download)

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The echoing distortion of this song is what does it for me. I bet if you cleaned it up, I wouldn’t be posting it here. It’s a good thing that they like to keep their sounds dirty. The walkmen.

Fingerbanger 4: The Walkman – Canadian Girl (download)

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Boomp Boomp Boomp! The Ender Ender. Bringing the hammers!

Fingerbanger 5: AMG – Bitch Betta Have My Money (download)

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Passion Pit Video = Cool

OverEndOut: P.Tone.