There's no reason why we can't use the excuse of "It's the beginning of the working week, for fucks! I need some soothing music!" to download some free tunes in a 100% law abiding manner, now is there?

So here's Defamer Australia's very first Monday Morning MP3 -

Stephen Cummings - "I Want You To Want Me"

If you don't know who Stephen Cummings is, then now is the time to knuckle down and learn a thing or two, young man/lady.

- He is very bloody good!

- He used to be the frontman for The Sports!

- But then he went solo!

- He likes to write words on paper a bit too!

- He has penned songs for and performed as part of Four Hours Sleep, an almost disturbingly lovely Melbourne music super group! The song "Stick To My Fingers" from their More Of Her album is heartbreakingly perfect, and their 2006 album Love Specifics was probably the most perfect "grown up" pop album of last year!

- Bill McDonald, Cummings' friend and fellow mastermind of the Four Hours Sleep project, once referred to Cummings as follows in a recent MySpazz blog entry - "We don't like to talk of Stephen, he's so butch, so square - he's our Ian Stewart - according to the storyline, Ian Stewart was The Rolling Stones pianist, but he was too ugly to be included in the group. Need I say more? Stephen has trouble expressing his emotions. Tactically, the less said about him the better. I've forgotten what I was going to say."

- This is a good and pleasing quote because Bill obviously has a dry sense of humour and a clever way with words, and they are chums who allow each other to take the mickey! MOVING AND AMUSING!

- The Age apparently described him once as "one of the great voices of Australian rock"!

- He's won ARIAs! Yes! One of those enjoyably pointy things that mean something and Savage Garden have 341 of them!

Go forth and learn more about one of Australian music's quiet-but-brilliant achievers at once. You can (legally) download a few more of Stephen's tunes from this site. Go on. They've made our Monday morning, there's no reason why you shouldn't get your aural jollies as well.

 

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