Our song "Tallest Building in Hell" is on the new PDX POP NOW 2009 compilation. You can get it at
www.pdxpopnow.com its really really good! Our fave song is the Breakfast Mountain track!
Anywho, so, but the PDX POP NOW peeps used Tallest Building in Hell as a promotional track and so its coming up on tons of blogs and whatnot...check these out!
Willamette Week --
http://blogs.wweek.com/music/2009/06/03/jared-mees-the-grown-children-the-tallest-building-in-hell-2009-pdx-pop-now-complilation/This is a Super Duper nice one...kinda cant believe how nice it is...in fact, here it is in its entirety.
In less than two weeks, my brother is graduating from college. It is, to put it blunty, not really the best time to go from the comforting bubble of collegiate life to the Real World. My best advice to him? Hang in there, buddy. Or at least listen to Jared Mees tell you that everything will be fine.
More than just about any song I’ve heard the past few years, “The Tallest Building in Hell” makes me feel okay about my life. It’s a song about hope, about trudging through the shit to make it, inevitably, to a better place. In a time when most of my friends have either been laid off, or are unsure about their future or their career or just don’t know what the hell they want to do with their lives, the repeated refrain of “patience pays off finally” hits you like a Dwight Howard elbow to the throat. It’s a gut check, for sure, but in the best way possible. Hey! Things will work out! Just don’t mess with me!:
“And it’s hard to believe/ When you’re up so late at night/ And it’s hard to believe when you do nothing wrong/ and it’s hard to believe when you’re so comfortable/ Moving so fast, breathing so slow.”
Of course, part of the joy in Mees’ songwriting is its communal aspect; and really, no matter how many times you listen to “The Tallest Building in Hell” at home or read the lyrics I have printed here, nothing compares to the power of the song as a sing-along, with a whole room of people belting out words that surely ring true. The PDX Pop Now! festival is all about community, about bringing together a diverse group of music and people for one kick ass weekend. I can’t think of a better theme song.
Basement Of Our Brain -
http://www.basementofourbrain.com/ Crappy Indie Music -- The Blog! -
http://crappyindiemusic.blogspot.com/ Portland Mercury
http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2009/06/03/your-daily-pdx-pop-now-song-day-two