Feb 2022 blues irritation cbg cigarbox
@ponygal1961 sprung this on me oh so long ago, at the start of FAWM 2022 way back in the dim distant past. I couldn't work out how to do it though until the one-note song challenge appeared and Flying Tadpole's Travelling Blues Band pleaded in a heart-breaking manner to be let out just once. Only just been able to record it tonight as week3 fires up. [If you don't know about FTTBB, well, that's probably best--there's always Apple Music and Spotify for the suicidally curious. But you'll pay...oh yes, you'll pay....ahem..]
Instruments: CBG (rhythm, fingered) CBG (lead, plectrum) Cimar Lawsuit Bass, tam with head also doubling as drum.
SHUT IT
Words & Music Copyright © 2022 Sarah Roberston & TJ Fatchen
All Rights Reserved APRA-AMCOS isrc: auney2200175
If you only use your mouth for whining
If you love the sound of your own voice
If we’d never even listen to you
If we only had that choice
If you only open it to complain
And you’re annoying as shhhh!t
Shut it
If your yap is always flapping
And you’re the foremost authority
If your yap is always flapping
If you think you know better than me
If you know better than anyone
About all we think or do
If everybody else is wrong cuz
The only right one is you
Shut it...
Shut it...
Shut it...Shut it...Shut it...
Shut it...
Shut it...Shut it...Shut it...Shut it...
Shut it...
If your opinion is a free for all
If you’re always on offense
And you sound just like a freakin’ loon
Who ain’t got no common sense
If every word’s a crybaby refrain
And you’re annoying as shhhh!t
Shut it
(chorus x 'n')
Shut it
Shut it...Shut it...Shut it...Shut it....
Shut it...
(outro)
Shut...It!
Shut...It!
Shut shut shut
SHUT
IT
@leepat Mar 2022
this is so punk I forgot it's rock'n'.. blues.
great opening line (I only wish there was sth rhyming with it later).
all the call and response going on is great.
at yer tudes, go!
@rubberbandage Feb 2022
Perfect for the one-note challenge! An acerbic cranky song repeatedly telling someone to SHUT IT shouldn’t make me smile the entire time, but…
@ponygal1961 Feb 2022
@timfatchen Love it!! Hadn't tuned in for a couple days and this was a spectacular surprise to come back to. Thanks, as always, for sharing your vibrant and entertaining talents!
@moonraccoon Feb 2022
Hahaha - Sometimes a person just has to be told! My fave musical part is the Waitsian lead guitar throughout; that's not an easy vibe to capture. And it works so well in the mix.
@mikeb Feb 2022
Very fun song. Maybe add a whiskey jug to that Blues Band?!
@kahlo2013 Feb 2022
Ha! Fun! Love the rhythm and the basically one note delivery and fun groove and beat! Chorus made me smile.
@majordanby Feb 2022
Ha! This is great fun! Love the Aussie accent and the vocal delivery. It sounds like you had a lot of fun doing the backing vocals. Reminded me somewhat of the Small Faces in parts. Great track.
@jayjay Feb 2022
Lol. We all know these people.
Nicely done
Backing whinging is perfect.
@zecoop Feb 2022
Oh, this is so much fun. Endless energy and attitude and the CBG sounds perfect (hey look, I know what a CBG is!!) ;) The while thing was a hot but when it got to the end with the ‘round’ of shut it’s… I audibly snorted and was laughing like crazy. Such a fun song that I think EVERYONE can relate to at some point. Awesome…
@lowhum Feb 2022
Great attitude rant not very much unsimilar (to me imho) to "she's got it, baby she's got it" with a swirling comic twist and funny noises and voices, springing from left, right and overhead. I thought there were only two guitars - mine, and electric ones, but I see you are using some CBG, they're probably so good, that they earned an abbreviation. Greetings!
Great collab!
@p3t3h4rv3y Feb 2022
excellent, brilliant use of illegal instruments, un-thinkable rhythms and off the grid imagery. Makes me think of a beaten up side-show tent with a leg sticking out the flap
@mikeskliar Feb 2022
What a blast! and yeah, that lyric and the music & performance are perfectly matched to each other- love the cigar box stuff, the vocal delivery, all that great snark in the lyric, and the overall sentiment of course is genius! love those background vocals too!
@billwhite51 Feb 2022
a monstrously fun "shut up" song apropos for the zeitgeist of our "know nothing / know it all" times.
@jibbidy34 Feb 2022
Ooh loving that sinister chugging blues backing and the female vox stabs work well. Fun lyrics!
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
everyone is on a fun run today! very amusing! some nice instrumentation in there as well! ha ha almost a bit Devo