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Maxi Geil! & Playcolt @ Pianos 10/12/2005
Here Comes Maxi / Teenage Extreme / That’s How The Story Goes / Sunday Morning / Paying For Something New / You Can’t Kill Us Man / The Love I Lose / Making Love In The Sunshine / Please Remember Me

Maxi Geil! & Playcolt “Making Love In The Sunshine” – Yet another hot show from Maxi Geil & Playcolt. Seriously, you’re all missing out. As good as the studio recordings are, the songs come alive with greater intensity, theatricality, and raw sexuality on the stage, and I am certain that many of you who may be on the fence about this band would be converted if you only just came out to one of their shows. This particular show was in celebration of the band’s new limited edition picture disc featuring “That’s How The Story Goes” and “Making Love In The Sunshine,” so it was appropriate that those two songs were the highlights of the set, along with an urgent and instantly catchy new song called “You Can’t Kill Us Man,” which seems to be a sort of lament for the weakness of the left in America. (Click here to buy it from the official Maxi Geil site.)

Harald ‘Sack’ Ziegler “Bungalow” – I don’t speak German at all, but I’m reasonably certain that this song is in favor of bungalows. Either that, or it’s extremely ironic. There’s something lovely and exotic about this track, especially when Ziegler hits those high notes. It’s strange enough that my roommate walked in while it was on and had to ask “what kind of music is this?” I guess the answer would have to be “DIY quasi-Dadaist German new wave from the 80s,” though it seems somewhat plausible that this could be the indigenous folk music of the moon village in the original German version of Münchhausen. (Click here for the official Harald “Sack” Ziegler site.)