Download of the day: Ambrosia, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice"

Meant to post this last night as a download in Vonnegut's honor but my file-hosting service has suddenly become very buttheaded.  Until I find a new one, get it from this yousendit link before 4/19.

"Nice" is from Ambrosia's 1975 debut, a little piece of semi-prog frippery that Wikipedia calls an "FM classic."  Sadly this is true, which says way too much about the state of popular music in those Trick of the Tail days and thank god for Johnny, Steve, Paul and Sid and all that.

The Vonnegut connection?   The lyrics are his, or rather Bokonon's.  The 57th Calypso, I believe.  The band was even kind enough (or copyright-savvy enough) to give KV a co-writing credit on the album sleeve.

Ambrosia later did some truly awful shit pawned off as music, and of course it sold very well.  Apart from this song, less said about them the better.

Which pretty much sets them at the opposite end of the creative spectrum from Mr. V, IMO.  Except for maybe Elvis Costello, he never really got the props he deserved from rock and roll - remember Dead Eye Dick? - and I suppose that would fit his sense of rueful justice just perfectly.