Daylight savings time really did a number on me. I am one hyper, happy girl. The extra sunshine is doing me good. And Central Services is working with me through it. This is some sunny pop that just makes me hap, hap, happy. They are a great Seattle group that's been making lovely music together since at least 2004. Those of you who follow the music blogs are sure familliar with them. They say their songwriting influences range "from Wilco to Steely Dan, Ben Folds to Paul McCartney, Aimee Mann to The Shins, and Elliott Smith to early Genesis." Yep. That pretty much sizes it up for me. Here are a couple of tunes off their self-titled LP. Buy it! It's fab. Sha-la-la-la...

Central Services, get to you
Central Services, song 89

and BONUS! One of the guys - Lead singer and drummer Kevin Emerson is an author of kid novels (Clea!). So, they also have an alter-ego - Central Services Board of Education doing super smart and fun songs directly for the littles. And, if you live in the Bay Area, they're coming down here for some shows - both CS and CSkids! Yahoo! I can't wait.

Central Services Board of Education, the lonely tomato

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enjoy!
--deb in sf