I’m no goth girl, but I recently caught two thirds of a nerdcore rap concert. (Concert? Is a rap show called a concert?) Performance by MC FrimmerFrammer- I mean Frontalot. MC Frontalot. It had it all: jigsaw jams, geek-fresh flow, mostly dudes, no entry fee because I was late, ok well there were no jigsaw jams…Here’s the setlist:
Braggadocio
Pron Song (I know, I’m just feeling anti-zero right now)
This Old Man
Tongue Clucking Grammarian
Charity Case
Goth Girls
I Hate Your Blog
Spoiler Alert
First World Problem
Yellow Lasers (Encore)
I came in as Tongue Clucking Grammarian was underway. As a song it’s catchy with ridiculous lyrics. I’d really like to mock and deride them for being almost entirely about grammar and linguistics, but I find myself unable to do that as my new very favorite Ben Folds song is essentially about the same thing.
Charity case is kind of funny. Goth Girls I seem to have inadvertantly/advertantly memorized. I like the song I Hate Your Blog because I’m in this ear training class and I was able to figure out the chorus chords by listening (1,4,6,5) and that makes me really happy. I couldn’t really understand the lyrics to spoiler alert, but I gather they are about spoilers?? First World Problem was one I hadn’t heard before but seemed ok. And the encore was not my favorite. Encores and me don’t have a wonderful track record; Ben Folds often plays (uuhhhh…) Narcolepsy as an encore.
Frontalot sort of skipped the whole encore format as he wasn’t feeling great and needed to cut the concert rather short. He told us that “Usually we all leave then you clap and maybe shout my name and we all come back out for one more…let’s just do one more.” He also apologized to the bass player who apparently really really likes encores. Greg says the bass player is awesome. But I say I wish I could see the keyboardists fingers. Good concert and well worth the money I didn’t pay to see it.