Pleased To Meet You

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are doing the Guest List thing over at Pitchfork:

>>>>Favorite New Band?
 
Kip Berman: Girls; Knight School.
I would say-- and I will say-- Girls as well, and I'm sorry if that's repetitive, but I'm really into them. But if I have to have another choice, the band that I've been super into is Knight School . They're just a Brooklyn crash-pop band, and they have a really good sense of humor about it, which I think is sometimes overlooked. They have songs like "Mrs. Tambourine Man", "Pregnant Again", and "Vampire Shmampire". The titles alone are totally entertaining, and the music's super catchy, too.

(Note: Like me, Knight School is fixated on Oprah. Who isn't? The unsigned Brooklyn band is definitely worth a listen; they're a less moody-prone-to-wrist-slitting-version of The VIvian Girls.)

 

>>>Favorite Song Ever?

Alex Naidus: The Replacements: "Can't Hardly Wait" (original Tim version).
I can listen to the original Tim version of "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Replacements from now until infinity. I love that song, and the version that's on Pleased to Meet Me makes me want to shoot myself, so I'm glad the other version exists, because that song deserves something better. But the Tim version of that song is incredible, one of my favorites.

Both versions in question. He definitely has a point:

The Tim version:

 

The Pleased To Meet Me version:

Knight School will open for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart on March 13th at The Bell House in Brooklyn.