Rob Corrdry: Elephant 6 Fan

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Rob Corrdry: Elephant 6 Fan

Published Wednesday, July 26, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

I've been watching the Onion AV Club's new feature, "Random Rules" (in which a celebrity puts his/her iPod on shuffle and talks about the first tracks that come up), and waiting for this to happen. Nothing on the David Cross one (he's an Athens music fan). But how bizarre to find that Rob Corrdry, a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is an E6 fan. The Gerbils tune "Penny Waits" (from their first album, Are You Sleepy?) pops up, and Corrdry responds:

Such a great band. I got into them when I got into the whole Elephant 6 thing. I'm this weird sort of completist, in that once I hear one band, I buy their entire family tree, then never end up listening to anything but the band that made me do the research. And that one band was Neutral Milk Hotel. But then I found The Gerbils, and now that I think about it, maybe The Gerbils don't have anything to do with Neutral Milk Hotel. But it comes from the same era. The jangly, Beatles-esque indie pop. I imagine these guys being like three feet tall. They're aptly named. They might be gerbils.

You can read the whole feature here. Thanks to Rich from Cable and Tweed for passing this along. Speaking of Cable and Tweed, Optical Atlas, as well as Mike Turner from HHBTM, were featured participants in that blog's recent survey of "the best album of 2006 so far." You can see what we picked here. Yes, my pick was an Elephant 6 band.