The Magic is You!

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 30:20

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04.22.11
Quick-witted absurdist doing accordion-pop…not named Al.
2005 | Label: Gunsablazin / CD Baby

Like the type of dorm room booger-joke weird that poured out of the best Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon records, New York's Corn Mo is all the unabashed histrionic fury of Tenacious D poured into a sequined jumpsuit. Armed with little more than an accordion and an absurdist streak as long and dangerous as Avenue A, his combination of MySpace-friendly dementia and Meatloaf-rivaling pipes have earned him tours with They Might Be Giants and Polyphonic Spree. Bite into "The Baloney Song," a most heartbreaking song about a slice of baloney on a magical journey into becoming human waste.

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holls

HOT. Corn more is the best.

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Corn Mo is a Rock God

matt-robot

This is what it would sound like if Bon Jovi and Meatloaf had a kid, and that kid learned to play a mean accordion and wrote songs about going to the mall. Corn Mo puts on a kick ass live show, and this album is pretty darn great as well. Especially check out "Busey Boy," a tune featuring a narrator who is repeatedly mistaken for Gary Busey.

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