How I Discovered Los 6 Paraguayos Today

**This is my brain on** [**music**](https://open.spotify.com/track/12COqqmSKtzoDwVDGPBCMx)

*Song I've never heard comes on Spotify*

**The urge to take you grows more strong** **For time has made me wait too long**

*My slow brain:* "This song is... wrong. I know it, but... differently. What is it? The band is wrong. Who are They?'

*Note: My Broca's Area always figures stuff out first and taunts the rest of the language centers until they catch up. Although this time it was* **second** *—my supplementary motor area grokked the entirety of the loveliness before it within about three beats, freaked allllll the way out, and screamed the answers over and over. Just... not in words. Or sounds. Mostly in spastic head jerks and rhythmic bouncing.*

*Spotify, patient as ever:*

**Each watch I smash apart, just adding to my power** *Auditory complex starts singing along, loud and barely on key* **Each watch I smash apart, just bringing near the hour** *Frontal lobe, finally:* "Oh, snap! It's"

*All together:* "***TWENTY FIVE O CLAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHK THATS WEN YER GOING TO BE MAAAAAAAAAAIIII***\*\*\*^(IIIIIIIIIII)\*\*\****AAAHHN***

*Occipital, parietal, and the rest of the temporal lobe, hastily reading liner notes in a desperate attempt to catch up:* "Waitwaitwait... 'Los 6 Paraguayos'? Who TF are 'Los 6 Paraguayos'? And why are They so amazingly **cool**?"

*Broca's Area and SMA wait for the other show to drop*

"How did six Paraguayans sneak a Dukes of Stratosphear song onto a star-studded XTC tribute album? Seriously, who the entire fuck are They... stop that, Broca, it's annoying when you miscapitalize things for emphasis**ohMy*****GOD.***

***mayhem for the remaining 1:30 of the song***

And that is how I discovered that my favorite alter ego band of all time was covered by an alter ego of my favorite band of all time, 30 years ago. Truly, They are the band that keeps on giving.