MP3:
Mike Sophia - Cow (3:36)
I know very little about this man except that he gave a friend of mine his demo CD in a Los Angeles alleyway, while my friend was shooting some second-unit material for a TV show. It made its way to me, and I still can barely contain my glee whenever I listen to it. Until now, I've shared it with almost no one, feeling too close to it for some reason. It's certainly earnest, but it's also awkward, strange, and wonderful – at least to me. So, I've since revised that opinion – it needs to be heard!
"Cow" is definitely the standout track. Whether or not it's "outsider" I cannot say. In fact, the less I say about this, the better. I will say this, however: I believe this song is truly unique, and appears to be the work of a very peculiar, homespun talent.
- Contributed by: Jonathan Ward
Has a Daniel Johnston appeal, no?
Posted by: Lara | March 23, 2007 at 01:57 AM
That "Cow" won't milk.
(The audio links don't work.)
Posted by: Taro at news.3yen.com (Tokyo) | March 23, 2007 at 05:02 AM
Sorry, the imbedded audio player doesn't work in RSS (while the wfmu imbeds work just fine). The MP3 will download just fine.
Posted by: Taro at news.3yen.com (Tokyo) | March 23, 2007 at 05:05 AM
..i love this song...its vaguely paganistic... has an almost paul giovanni feel to it.... i can almost here it on the 1973 wickerman soundtrack...like a sacrificial celebration song... beautiful!!!!
Posted by: andy | March 23, 2007 at 07:21 AM
Great song! The much loved Lucia Pamela factor ("Walking On the Moon"). The music reminds me of "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler. Which came first?
Posted by: Pinball King | March 23, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Wow! I mean really really Wow!
Posted by: Scott Soriano | March 23, 2007 at 07:14 PM
That sing is very funny! Congratulation for Otis Fodder and his sounds, that's a very good idea and congratulations for your programs. I'm technical director of new regional radio in Brittany France Littoral AM and we broadcast at this adress:
http://www.littoralam.fr/ and you click on : "écoutez"
Blog : http://littoralinfo.over-blog.com
We're generalist radio, we broadcast since ten days. For the moment we broadcast french and breton music for test, later we broadcast news and report.
Frederic Guyon
Posted by: Frédéric Guyon | March 24, 2007 at 05:07 PM
Stunning! The guy is a genius. Or something. . . . .
Jon
Posted by: Jon | March 25, 2007 at 05:34 AM
What kind of therapy are you in if you leap from, "I want to be a cow" to, "What will I do if the other cows don't like my moo?"
Posted by: Hear It Wow | March 26, 2007 at 10:35 AM
This is indeed a great companion piece to Daniel Johnson's Walking The Cow, infact I'm sure there must be enough cow songs to put together a compilation of outsider cow music.
Posted by: David | October 16, 2007 at 02:10 PM
AHHHH this brings back memories...sometime back in 2005 or so this was passed to an P.A. at Warner Brothers TV Animation. He happened to be wearing his ID tag at a local car wash and this fellow came up and pressed a cd into his hand. We( the Justice League Crew) had a ball with it ever since. You should transcribe the lyrics to the cow song....it takes a very strange turn towards the end.....
Posted by: george | June 24, 2008 at 02:24 PM
An update to the Mike Sophia saga: it appears that, only a mere 2 years after this was posted, Mike has been discovered and now performs "Cow" in an upcoming film (link below). Ah, well, we knew him when...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5dQBM6fz0
Posted by: Jonathan Ward | May 06, 2009 at 04:26 PM