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Brian Wilson and his fellow Beach Boys (he will one day overcome his life aquatic fear), Donovan (where your love like anything), The Beat-Less Crickets Spin-off Band (actually, Ringo laid down some great beats and so did McCartney), Buddy (and also the Chubby Big Buddy)...
I could probably go on for a while (and I'm only on the B's still). Film Soundtracks (anything Hitchcock or Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, anything Coppola [Not the big FF but Sophia or Roman]),the hardest working band in show biz, The Flaming Lips (besides that guy [as the camera turns and we see Jonny Carson juggling a car], Sufjan Stevens the artist who I, one day, hope to play as many instruments as, the three Bs as Mrs. McEwen would say (Brahms. Beethoven and Bach), Os Mutantes, classical music, all things introduced by older siblings' (including the expression "all things"), people like Lindsay D who live and breathe music and who share the database of their musical knowledge so passionately; they are the reason bands become bands and, the reason we're all alive, Air (both the band and "O₂"). Though my biggest inspiration for all things music, film and storytelling has to be the Spielberg Lucas Williams Ford combo.

Most amazing thing ever:

Amazing Canadian Artists:

the honoured horde of Hylozoists
the fantastical framework of femBots
the culmination of a credible Cuff the Duke
the warshawing of wondrous Weakerthans
the healthy healing of Heavy Blinkers
the harnessing helping of Hopeful Monster
the timid taming of Their Majesties
the loud lofting of Laura Barrett
the jaculating justness of Just Friends
the memorable marveling of Major Grange
the masterful monumentalization of Museum Pieces
the feverous familiarity of Feist
the heroic hearting of Hidden Cameras
the fond fortressing of Final Fantasy
the cryptic celestialization of Christine Fellows
the natural nicety of Nathan Lawr
the blessed bombarding of a Broken Social Scene
the barrier breaking Buck 65
the juggernauting jesting of Just Barelys
the braving besting of Brent Randall & His Pinecones
the sugary satisfaction of Sweet Tenders
the lovely leveling of Laura Peek & The Winning Hearts
the tremendous truthiness of The Sea Threw Timothy
the conversate calling of The Call-Up
the foregoing factinista of The Fools Music
the sudden striking of The Stance
the forewarning fury of The First Aid Kit
the bounding benediction of BA Johnston
the dignified domination of Do Make Say Think
the joyful jousting of Jenn Grant & the Night Painters
the resilient resonation of Rebekah Higgs
the delicate dexterity of Double A
the angelic augmentation of Augustine
the ordinate offering of The Orchid
the masterful memorizing of Music Inspired the Film
the detailed daring of Dale Murray
the welcoming weathering of Wintersleep
the controlled consulting of Contrived
the happy hallowing of Holy Fuck
the juncturing juvenility of Jill Barber
the radiating resolution of Ruth Mikinin
the wouldy wordplay of Word Burglar
the determined detonation of Dog Day
the onipherous obeisance of On Film
the igniting illumination of In-Flight Safety
the balletic brainiac of Benn Ross
the daggerboardic dailies of Dependant
the balanced bachata of Brain Borcherdt
the systematic springing of Sleep To Dream
the tall-tale toughness of TomCat Combat
the farraginous fruits of Fall Horsie
the solerastic solemnization of The Stolen Minks
the garnishing glabrousness of The Ghost Bees
the painstakingly prostration of Punch Me Hard
the giant generosity of Great Plains
the smashingly spiritualization of The Stretch
the therapeutic transudation of Trouble Rocket
the woken worthiness of Will Hemmings
the martiniquing marksmanship of Matt Mays & El Torpedo
the gorblimey gratification of Glory Glory Man United
the honest hearkening of The Healing Power
the correlated convocation of Caledonia
the grabbling grace of The Grass
the spediant speciality of The Spades
the radius ransacking of Ruby Jean and The Thoughtful Bees
the awarding aviation of A/V
the awe astonishing of AA Wallace
the awashfully advantageousness of Adam Puddington
the abyssily afterglowing of Al Tuck
the arresting anarchy of A Sight For Sewn Eyes
the algorithmic adverbing of Alpha Flight
the adjusting affection of Amelia Curran
the stellar saturation of Share
the amarkingly afoot Andru Branch & The Half-Way Tree
the astonishingly amazing Arcade Fire
the advancing arsenal of Attack Mode
the besiding birth of Baby Eagle
the beating base of A Band of Owls
the battling blast of Be Bad
the brittle besting of Blackout 77
the bettingly bettering of Brad Casey
the blatant brightness of Broken Ohms
the bloody benediction Bucket Truck
the catchy commotion of C'mon
the conscious convexing of City Field
the circulating cooperation of City & Colour
the conspiring culmination of The Crimson Tides
the detonating demarcation D/A A/D
the devastating demonstration of Dammien Alexander
the deservingly daunting of DD/MM/YYYY
the detoxing dabble of Don Brownrigg
the debunkingly dignity of Down With The Butterfly
the electing eruption of Eviction Party
the foresting furry of Fire Flower Revue
the firstly furnishing of Forest City Lovers
the gettingly grappling of Gamma Gamma Rays
the grandious grit of Germans
the gooding groovation of Ghettosocks
the grouping grain of Gloryhound and the Skyhawks
the glitterious greatness of Gypsophilia
the goingly grunge of Grand Theft Bus
the happening huronicity of Heavy Meadows
the harrowing harvest of Hey Rosetta!
the hopeful helping of Hot Shot Robot
the hooting harnessing of Husband and Knife
the indestructible ingeniousness of I See Rowboats
the jepordizing juxtaposition of Jesse Dangerously
the joint jubilantness of Jon McKiel
the jaunting joyfulness of Joel Plaskett Emergency
the jettingly jotation of Jonny Stevens
the justly jewel of Jon-Rae & The River
the jockular jaming of Jordan Croucher
the journalistic judication of Journalist Wold
the jumentous joviality of Joyless Streets
the jumping juno of Juan Love
the kinetic kainogenesis of Kev Corbett
the motioning momentum of Mardeen
the marathoning mustard of Mark Bragg
the merry monolith of Mike Evin
the marching mauling of Mike Trask
the masking meditation of Myles Deck & The Fuzz
the marble megesticness of Meaghan Smith
the organized onslaught of Oh Dinah
the originating ogling of Oh! Beautiful! Majestic! Eagle!
the on-goingly ontoping of Old Man Luedecke
to be continued...

"An elaborate blend of roughly 25 instruments into a multicoloured pop crazy quilt"
- Stephen Cooke - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, NS)

"This guy has made an epic album"
- Whitney Matheson - USA Today (Pop Candy)

"The album was recorded solely by Aucoin on his computer... working with the painstakingly meticulous nature of an animator"
- Matt Charlton - The Coast (Halifax Weekly)

"Halifax’s charming Dr. Seusster"
- Shannon Webb-Campbell - ChartAttack (Canada’s Online Music Zine)

"Like many Canadian musicians before him, he is going on a cross-Canada tour. Unlike all the rest, Rich is touring the country on his bicycle. With all his instruments. In a Grinch costume. Raising money for cancer research"
- Grant Lawrence - CBC Radio 3

"Aucoin creates bombastic, orchestral indie pop soundscapes crafted around abstract lyrics and narratives"
- Vish Khanna - Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority

"Aucoin is never lacking for an engaging melody or a memorable line. It all helps ensure that Personal Publication stands up on its own merits, rather than relying on its creator to give it character"
- Matthew Pollesel - i(heart)music (Ottawa, ON)

"All fears as to how the experiment would translate in a live setting were quickly allayed once the set began. Both Aucoin’s rainbow-hued sound and this wonderfully ridiculous concept immediately brought comparisons to the Flaming Lips"
- Pras Rajagopalan - Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority

"He is similarly stoic about the feat of crossing the Rockies without any prior athletic training"
- Helen Spitzer - EyeWeekly (Toronto, ON)

"While the Grinch had a heart that was two sizes too small, Rich Aucoin’s is bursting with goodwill"
- Nick Lewis - Calgary Herald

"A treat for the ears and mind"
- Mike Warner - Torontonist

"10: Top EPs of the Year: It’s one thing to play a ton of instruments on your record, it’s quite another to meld all those instruments into a record that’s an enjoyable listen. Rich has certainly achieved that."
- HeroHill (Halifax, NS)

"The Halifax, Nova Scotia resident who comes off as a Canuck Sufjan Stevens, based on both his sound and the fact that he knows his way around twenty-plus instruments, has created an impressive musical masterpiece that just so happens to serve as a beautiful compliment to the 1966 classic"
- Josh Spear (New York, NY)

"Halifax recording artist Rich Aucoin has done something truly remarkable with his debut EP"
- Hoovaloo: A Blog About Cool And Interesting Things

"Aucoin has an innate ear for melody"
- Chris Whibbs - XPress (Ottawa Weekly)

"Needs to be seen to be believed"
- David Schmeichel - Winnipeg Sun

"This Nova Scotian may be the most ambitious Canadian musician ever"
- Duke of Straw (Pittsburgh, PA)

"Believe it or not, Rich Aucoin has played under his own name for just 9 months"
- Ian Gormely - Halifax Magazine

"A bizarre yet wondrous bit of music"
- Dave Jaffer - Montreal Hour

"Quite uplifting"
- Jonathan Migneault - Mocking Music (Ottawa, ON)

"Taking a classic piece of film history and adding your own touch could easily go wrong, but this one is just right"
- Covert Curiousity (Austin, TX)

"This took time, patience, creativity, ingenuity, but I think you will agree that it was worth the effort"
- B(oot)log (Kingston, ON)

"10: Top Albums of the Year: Rich Aucoin is your average genius"
- Indie For Bunnies (Italy)

"1: Top EPs of the Year: It’s a kick to watch Grinch with an Aucoin soundtrack, but the music stands on its own as an accomplished, majestic work. Multi-instrumentalist Aucoin favors a sonic patchwork quilt approach, à la Andrew Bird or Sufjan Stevens, and his songs have a similar offbeat charm"
- Kofi’s Hat (Los Angeles, CA)

"A Festive Delight"
- No Rock And Roll Fun (United Kingdom)

"Rich Aucoin has taken on the daunting task of writing an entire album that not only stands on its own as a listening experience but intentionally syncs up with a 1966 classic... it’s a great match. I can’t imagine the process of actually writing and recording something of this nature"
- Yewknee (San Fransisco, CA)

"Pretty Impressive"
- DimattiaFilms (Wilmington, NC)

"Best Shows of 2007: Seeing Haligonian and multi-instrumentalist Rich Aucoin step unassumingly onto a stage is like opening a box from Ikea: you think you know what you’re in for, but there are a lot more pieces to the puzzle than you expected"
- Jill Langlois - Eye Weekly (Toronto, ON)

"Top 10 Atlantic Canadian Artists of 2007: 7- The disc is a pop gem on its own merit, but borderlines on genius when synched with Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch"
- Chuck Teed - Giraffe Cycle (Fredericton, NB)

"The album was painstakingly written to synchronize with the movie and grow your heart at least two sizes. Animated whos rejoice with trumpets, evergreens bounce with the hi-hat, facial expressions resonate to the vibraphone, ornaments glisten in rows of the glokenspiel... all in an impressively subtle feat of audio-visual brilliance for the talented multi-instrumentalist and for an album that quite honestly stands on its own."
- Just Sayin Is All (Madison, WI)

"It’s pop art... This Canadian definitely has my attention"
- Pasta Primavera (Baltimore, MD)

"Top Songs of 2007: 10, 342 Cuts For the Us"
- Electric Blogaloo (Toronto, ON)

"This is beautiful Indie-Pop music."
"Personal Publication is brilliant to the point of restoring your optimism."
- trans. Jenner Berger & Giov
- Indie For Bunnies (Italy)

"Officially the coolest music out today - Grade: A"
- Hear/Say: America’s College Music Magazine

"Extremely Magical"
- Chris Whibbs - Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority