Hedonistic Me by Born Ruffians
This song is fantastic. I found it through a recent Pandora experience while doing some tedious room cleaning last week. Since then I have been addicted to the song and have played it every time I have started my car or jumped in the pool. Born Ruffians is a Canadian indie rock group that has a fantastic sound and a front man that delivers their message in a unique way. The album featuring this song is entitled “Red, Yellow, and Blue” and it came out in 2008 among a lot of other stiff competition. They have toured with the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Tokyo Police Club, and The Honorary Title.
‘Hedonistic Me’ begins with their simple drum beat and then you get a taste of Luke LaLonde’s emphatic singing style. Reminiscent of bands like The Psychedelic Furs and Talking Heads, Born Ruffians deliever in this song about what a boy is planning to do for his love, in a life of simplicity and reproduction. With lyrics like
“And I will make sweet dandelion wine
And there’ll be no search for time.
Spend all our lives just having lives
And there’ll be no time for any lies.
There’s just mares-eat-oats and no more lows and all the children I have fathered.
There’ll be ma and pa and grandmama and all the children I have fathered.”
Hedonistic Me by Born Ruffians
this song extracts the qualities of simpler times and has a surprising emphasis on family values as well. Fun background effects come in to the song to add depth, along with a playful bass beat that adds another layer. This is what the young Canadians have shown me they do, provide layers of types of music in arrangements that envelop people.
The song is playful and the content is amusing, but overall the song has such a relaxing beat to it. Check these guys out sometime if you can. They haven’t played the southern California region since October of 2008, but hopefully they will be back soon. In the meantime, hit up iTunes: 
and download this song for an early Christmas present to yourself.
I think you’re worth it.
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” - Henry David Thoreau
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