The Red Frog Blog

In case you haven’t gotten it already, here, at Ancient Wisdom, we tend to like music, a lot actually, and at least one of us is especially talented.

Part of our musical inclination leads us to discover the wide variety of music new and old out there. I like to call it our musical education. And I have learned about way more music in the past few months than at any other time in my life. Keeping our musical selection lively in our office keeps our office going, for sure.

The best is when you discover a new song that you just can’t stop listening to. This doesn’t happen every day. Tyler acquired this great song on iTunes for free no less, “Time to Pretend” by MGMT, found on Oracular Spectacular. Immediately we were obsessed, playing it over and over (later realizing we weren’t the only ones). What is it about this song? First off, the beginning keyboard melody was inspired by the dance of the band’s pet praying mantis! Very cool sound. The lyrics in this song are quite ridiculous and involve a lot of mocking of the music culture and themselves.

This is our decision to live fast and die young
We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun
Yeah, it’s overwhelming but what else can we do
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Why at the same time strangely uplifting:

But there is really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew

The song is loud, intriguing, and addicting. The video is amazingly creative and goes all out and there is a 3D version!! Fun!

MGMT, started by Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden’s from Wesleyan University, have a website that is kind of whack. You can enter a keyword to search images and then an image matching the keyword appears as the background for the site. It also has some crazy color changing roll overs. More goodies - the song “Electric Feel” (my current favorite) features a user interactive video where you can change the background and foreground images.

She got the power in her hands to shock you like you won’t believe
Saw her in the Amazon with the voltage running through her skin

If you want to have some fun, check these songs out, as well as others done by these talented musicians, just don’t blame me if you can’t stop listening to them!