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June 04, 2009
Numerology Digression: 6.4's Unequaled Freakout
Our man Prof. Klein is currently jet-setting glamorously from No. Carolina to deepest upstate New York, but a pocket of airport wifi was all he needed to pass on a few 6.4.09 words on a related decimal numeral of unique interest. The song is a scizophrenic favorite of mine from way back, so I of course I obliged. The song's from my man Gary Wilson, who, as you may remember, rocks the most...(JK)
I didn’t intentionally exclude Gary Wilson’s “6.4 Equals Make Out” from my recent survey of six songs for any arcane numerological reasons—it simply got lost in an avalanche of worthy options. And I’m not alleging that it would have beaten Hendrix’s “If Six Was Nine” for top honors, but make no mistake; this track, by the outlandish cult musician and favorite of Beck (he gets a shout-out on “Where it’s At”) is the greatest, weirdest 6.4 song in existence. (And, as far as I can tell, the only 6.4 song in existence.) At first it could pass for a laid-back Beck B-side, but it takes a hard turn into Bizarro Land after a couple of repetitions of the title phrase, when Wilson abandons melody altogether and starts delivering desperate entreaties. “How old did you say you were?” he asks, only to be met with “16!” Wilson reaches a greater height of self-delusion with the phrase, “She’s a real groovy girl, and she’s got red lips,” which he repeats with a growing edge of desperation, finally adding, “Can’t cha hear me, God??” At this point, “6.4 Make Out” resembles nothing so much as a love song to a blowup doll. “She’s real!” he wails, “She’s real!!” When the thing finally fades out, you kind of want to take a shower. (And deflate that blowup doll once and for all.)
Gary Wilson - "6.4 = Make Out"
Numerology is our pal Dave's ill-advised quest to find the definitive song for every number from one to a hundred. We hear 60 is the new 40, and now we're not even that impressed by his progress.
Previously: No. 1, 2 (redux), 3, 4 (redux), 5-7, 5 (redux),6 (redux), 7 (counterpoint), 8, 9, 10/11, 12/13. 13 (counterpoint), 14/15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26/27, 28 , 29 , 30, 30 (counterpoint), 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, Footnotes, 57, 58, 59 , 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
Posted by David Klein at June 4, 2009 10:10 PM
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