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TrueNeutral:

--- Quote from: mysteriousbriefcase ---waxing pensive is like waxing one off, only you gotta use the power of your mind instead of pornography.
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Wax on, wax off!

Oh man. I totally fail at the internet.

Garcin:

--- Quote from: Slick ---
--- Quote from: !!!CPAOI!!! ---…waxes pensive.
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What does this mean? I think I have a vague idea from the times I've heard this term used, and I'm fairly sure I know what 'wax' and 'pensive' mean, but I don't know what this means.

I wouldn't think The Yeah Yeah Yeahs would be good acoustic, but I have a thing for female vocalists so I will check it out when I get home.
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--- Quote from: Merriam Webster's ---
Main Entry: wax
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weaxan; akin to Old High German wahsan to increase, Greek auxanein, Latin augEre -- more at EKE
3 : to assume a (specified) characteristic, quality, or state : BECOME
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Hence, wax pensive means "become" pensive.  You'll find many "words" in resources called "dictionaries."

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all the cool kids are reading the dictionary.

i think with iTunes songs, if you share it, you can do so i think 6 times? but you need a password. (or you could just burn the thing, put it back onto your computer and then put it on the gmail, because the protection goes away.)

just listening to the clips, cheated hearts and turn into sound really really good and diamond sea is good. gold lion doesn't sound good at all. what she does with her voice in the original doesn't really work well when toned down. it kind of loses it's power.

Garcin:
I'll take "literate" over "cool" any day of the week :)

iTunes protect format has an "m4p" extension.  To convert to "mp3" either download an app (there are tons that do just that, many are freeware), or burn to CD and then rip as mp3.  Warning: taking the latter route may result in major deterioration of sound depending on the album.  

Better alternative:  never, ever buy something off iTunes.  Ever.  Just don't.

On the subject of YYYs acoustic, if you take the electric guitar away from Nick for Modern Age and give him an acoustic guitar, and keep Karen's vocals exactly the same, voila, you've got a perfectly good acoustic track.  I didn't like those tracks as much as the quasi-punk sound in songs like Tick and Art Rock, but I did enjoy them.  Seeking this sort of variety separates the YYYs from the sort of one album wonder they got pigeonholed as in the hiatus before Show Your Bones and gives them artistic room to devleop into a real, long-term band.  I'm all for it.

penpen17:
I didn't particularly like what I heard.  The thing that I really liked about Show Your Bones was that they really toned down the post-punk noise, but Karen still delivered solid, powerful vocals.  The acoustic EP just sounded anemic to me.

I really want to see them try to pull off an acoustic version of 'Date with the Night'.  Now that would be entertaining.

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