Colby Cosh is out of the country on the Western Standard cruise, so I've taken the liberty of pillaging his archives. Don't anyone tell him.
I was looking for something else entirely (I forget what -- a Google search had tagged Colby's Feb. 2004 archive and I was scrolling through it) when I turned up this:
Attention, old roommates who used to bore me with old war stories of the Vancouver "indie" scene: all is forgiven, many times over. The Pornos are often described as a "power pop" group, but only here do they truly aspire to the label and play in the Weezer League. Footnote: the video is one of the twenty best ever made.
The band he's referring to is The New Pornographers, a critically-acclaimed band that I'd heard of, but never heard. Critically-acclaimed bands don't get much play on Canadian radio, and I've learned to avoid buying critically-acclaimed CDs sight unseen, as it were. I meant to download some tracks but never did get around to it.
But with a recommendation like that, I could tarry no longer. The song is called "All For Swinging You Around," and the video is here. (Second from the top on the right -- the Windows Media link is broken, and the sound on the Quick Time link is too tinny. That leaves the Real Player version.)
As for the song -- well, it's catchy enough, though not that remarkable. However, you'll note that Colby said that the video was one of the twenty best. As it features pretty girls jumping around, I cannot help but agree.