My Top 1000 Songs #799: The Naughty Villain

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Back in Elephant 6 mode again today... and while long-running indie band Elf Power never attracted quite the same level of fanaticism as, say, Neutral Milk Hotel (last heard from a couple days ago) or Olivia Tremor Control, lacking the drop-dead killer LP, they have a lot of interesting, widely varied music spread across their much lengthier discography. "The Naughty Villain," from 2000's The Winter Is Coming, is a stand-out for me, whether due to that signature violin lick (with the offsetting electric guitar riff) running through the song, or the circus-like percussion & horn vibe. Much less of a psych-era throwback than a lot of E6 music, but no less strange, and fearlessly willing to sound like no other music of the era. 

The band playing it at home, after an interview clip about the E6 scene: