I love bass-driven songs. The lyrics are stream-of-consciousness and don't make much sense, but I like it that way!
The First was the faster a dastardly bad lad named Vlad that drove a hearse made of plaster a surly sandblaster a burly crop duster a blustery bluster for uncle Buster and his monkey’s uncle who hunkered down and ate all the peanuts (shells and all)
And the bee stings the Buddha and the king’s men in Bermuda went to their scooters and toot-tooted their tubas
The Second weighed less and the name given was Helen she had a swell yen for millions of yen and trillions of men and billions of Benjamin Franklin statues that fused into one and served as the muse of the spouse of the plus-one that had just arrived and created somewhat of a crisis
And the bee stings the Buddha and the king’s men in Bermuda went to their scooters and toot-tooted their tubas
I'm the Third and I will be heard. Now listen:
The forecaster of fabulously faster flowing fjords
in hot backyards that soar beyond the farthest star
in March and they march and they munch
and it’s much of a muchness and a must for a duchess
Marshall stacks and pearl tracks of the oyster railway just past the Safeway so put out the put-downs and the pushups the plus ones and the posh nuns and as much as she likes it she’d like to foist it on a boy with a bracelet and a bull with an anklet who tangle at banquets and bequests and such is there much of a rush cos it's a lush carpet of plush marvelous cotton it’s not in the top end and not in the Top 10 but still a bargain in the end for a friend who went to Kent to rent a tent facing West and made the best of a testing situation in a prestigious nation of his choosing that’s he finds soothing and moving as he’s jumping and skiving and slumping and diving driving skydivers wild for many sky miles and that are, all the while, looking up to you
And the bee stings the Buddha.
@coolparadiso Mar 2022
omg i missed you all fawm! great track to start me off
@wolfkier Feb 2022
That bass is ringing all my bells and the words just flow ebb and tide on it's yummy groove.... :)
@jamkar Feb 2022
Both my feet tapping in time throughout.
Yep there is just something about a driving bass. This the theater of the absurd meets rock and roll!
@tamsnumber4 Feb 2022
Rockingly hypnotic melody, love the bass... The hook is killer....the production is so fun. Some amazing tongue twisters in that stream....so happy to be back listening to your magic.
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Well I like your bass-driven songs too!
Fabulous Dada lyrics here.
I love your ability to create songs that groove mightily while remaining solidly weird.
Relentless Motorik percussion.
Ah yes, that wonderful guitar.
Really nicely done for sure.
@dukongp100 Feb 2022
Ohhthis is wild - great driven by the bass and those cool grinding sounds work really well with your vocaks. The lyrics are really a awesome and wouldn't have thought them stream of consciousness had I not seen the note
@rayboneor Feb 2022
That crisp snare sounds so good along with that slightly flabby bass. I like songs that never let the back beat drop. All the atmospheric stuff and the percussion really put it over the top. I'm loving all the ttg nonsense. I'm not sure why, but you had me laughing out loud at a number of points. There's just so much verbiage tumbling out. It must have taken a while to transcribe that. You should send it all to your therapist. This is some prime ttg for sure
@racecarracecarband Feb 2022
This has something of a krautrock feel to it, which is very much up my alley. Something about the lyrics kind of made me think of a stoned-up parody of the Beach Boys' early car lyrics. Maybe just cause you said hearse.
@kanttila Feb 2022
The bass driven songs! Yes, I love when you make these. This was a really cool track, you made these remarkably dense lyrics work into the song with a fun range of deliveries. The noise fits over the track very well, with the solid backing keeping it in check.
I like the second voice which serves as a double track or a call/response whenever the occasion calls for it.
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2022
Lyrics make perfect sense to me :) Who doesn't like to toot toot a tuba in Bermuda while riding a scooter
Loved everything about this, but particularly that little percussion fill that sounds like something falling down some stairs is such a great touch. It really builds into a perfectly organized yet chaotic mess of pure earhole ecstasy, and so well done with that bass just plodding along holding everything together! Really great track though my dog is giving me a very judgemental look while I'm dancing like an idiot with a permagrin... one would think he would be used to it by now. He might just be jealous since I'm not sharing, but wearing headphones.
@cblack Feb 2022
Hey! Good to see you back!
This had real Bauhaus vibes from the first note. Definitely a great start!
For once, I love the bass line more than the others. Not really a bass head, but this song uses bass so well.
What guitar was that? Kinda sounded like a tele. It sounds great anyway. Kind of a God In An Alcove type jangliness.
Great song! Keep 'em coming!
@francessmith Feb 2022
Love the way the words flow, and get more and more 'excitable' throughout, and the accompaniment sound delightfully weird, and fits perfectly. I think you've got in touch with your inner Patti Smith here.
Not sure I'm going to do any songs this year, lyrics are still arriving, but the desire to turn them into songs doesn't last sufficiently long for it to actually happen. But I thought I'd come and say hello, anyway.
@klaus Feb 2022
Good danceable kraut-rock groove and lovely lyrics with a nice playful vibe. Great title. I like it.
@billwhite51 Feb 2022
it is not non-sense, it is new-sense. love your wordplay and fresh images surprising actions.
@wrenarcher Feb 2022
So I’m the kind of person who more often than not hears the music before lyrics. I mean, I have to listen to a song four, five, eight times before any of the snippets of lyrics get into my head.
So as you might imagine, hearing that driving bass, the trap set, delayed percussive sounds and the textures falling in had me hooked.
I LOVE this!!! I can’t stopping bobbing my head and my face hurts because I’m grinning so hard at the nonsensical story and then… the bee stings the Buddha!
Production is awesome. The mix… the different sounds and textures all suspended by that bass… everything. This is just too cool.
Awesome song to get out of the gate of FAWM ‘22.
@cindyrella Feb 2022
Great sound and stream of consciences lyrics! Love it