Joshua Malbin

Come In Threes is B-Diddy’s group MP3 blog for trios of related songs. While the copy asks for “the songs you can’t get out of your head”, my entry is more of a convergence — three songs with something in common that’s otherwise rare in pop music.

UPDATE: Turns out it’s a private blog. As Groucho Marx’s unfunny bizarro-universe counterpart said, I would prefer not to know I was a member of a club that would have me. Here’s my post, anyway:

The infantry stands, and holds out its hands. Bells are going to ring. Birds are going to sing! And all the people from the village will be there to congratulate us.

Pop music creates community through mass intimacy: to everyone, the same private feeling behind her own closed door. It’s no wonder that there aren’t more songs about grand public moments. Here are three.

Pencil Rain – They Might Be Giants

The Crowning – A Camp

A Wedding in Cherokee County – Randy Newman

Our houses will crumble, the city will fall. The thunderous clatter of splintering wood and lives that are claimed. Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?

All songs MP3@254kbps.

Honestly, I’m not entirely satisfied with the Randy Newman. Have you got a better one?

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