Gustafer Yellowgold

One Liner:  Kiddie Limits alien with a nice, sweet sound

Wikipedia Genre: Kiddie Limits
Home: The Sun

Poster Position: 26

Weekend One Only.

Thoughts: So, usually you get to the Kiddie Limits stuff and its pretty brutal.  Some song about barnyard animals or those stupid Q Brothers, but instead, this is pretty nice stuff.  Good sounding indie rock music with funny lyrics about a gravy shop or fireworks or "Baconstein."

Real name is Morgan Taylor, who has been nominated for Grammy awards, and created this character both in cartoon illustrations as well as in this music.  Gustafer is a friendly yellow alien who has come from the Sun to live in the Minnesota woods and explore the Earth.  Taylor performed for a 22 week run Off-Broadway, making music to go with his cartoons.

Of more interest to me is the fact that he has been brought on to open for real bands like Wilco and Polyphonic Spree, and works as a sound engineer with a bunch of good bands/music under his belt like Norah Jones, Duncan Sheik, Rufus Wainright, and Regina Spektor.  So this is more than just a kid concert thing, this guy has real talent that has already translated to real concerts.  Which is pretty awesome if you are needing to go to the Kiddie area, and you can see someone legit over there.

Like, "Hot Malt Eagle" could be a weird Cake song.  "Gravy Insane" cracks me up and could be an old Beatles B-Side from when they were doing lots of drugs.

So, am I to understand that the bats use weed to make the gravy amazing?  Sure looked like it from that video.  Subversive ass weed propaganda for the kids, yo.  And yes, the cartoons are pretty solid as well.  The top streamer, by a very long gap, is "Fireworks!" with 145k streams.

I mean, the chorus is pretty literal and all, but when singing for kids, I can see getting them pretty involved in the songalong.

Either way, this music actually is enjoyable.  Who could have imagined enjoyable music and kids, all in the same place?  Well done, Mr. Taylor.