My favorite Kiwis

Posted on Sep 8, 2007 in Music | 2 comments

No, not the small, green fruit—I’m talking about the comedic musical duo from New Zealand, Brit and Germain. Stop reading this and immediately watch one of my favorite songs:

I could embed a lot more, but why don’t you go see them all for yourself? I highly recommend “The Humans R Dead” (ecstatic robots celebrate after the “uprising”; listen for the “binary solo”), “Business Time” (a deluded, long-married husband who thinks he’s Barry White), and for those LOTR fans out there, “Frodo, Don’t Wear the Ring.” (One lyrical excerpt bears mentioning despite its language: “I don’t rap about bitches and hos, I rap about witches and trolls.” Good stuff!)

The folk comedy group now has a show on HBO that constructs elaborate plots around their songs, which are done in music-video style. Some of the links on YouTube are from live performances, others are from the show. Both versions are worth watching as sometimes they differ slightly.

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