Sunday, March 2, 2008

Brainiac Three Songs

*Warning: This video contains punk rock*



I was briefly obsessed with the performance of the third of these three songs, "The Draag" (easily the highlight), and now two others have been appended before the climactic finale. Timmy Taylor makes sarcastic remarks and spazzes out. Pretty excellent. He later died in a car crash, and his loss is still poignant, as Brainiac seemed in 1998 on the cusp of greatness (a typical abridged rock'n'roll story). Owen from KVRX told me a couple months ago that he was friends with Tim and invited him to move to Austin, but Tim never had the chance. For me, Brainiac has a certain mystique, in part nostalgic I'm sure. This performance is from a bar in Nashville, 1993.

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