Back in January I posted this thread:
https://fawm.org/forums/topic/12193/#c257911
about news article songs. A couple years ago I wrote a valentines song about sending someone a suitcase of dead birds - also in the news then. I've been writing this the past few days. I sold my Volca Sample today so I recorded a few things with it before the guy came to get it. But one of them worked for it so that's what you hear along with a couple of tracks of acoustic guitar for a little added instrumentation.
Oh, if you don't know, the "washing potatoes" line is a reference to the book 100 Monkeys if you've never heard of it.
100 Monkeys
100 Monkeys
Tipped all over the freeway
100 Monkeys
All over the road
100 Monkeys
Washing their potatoes?
100 Monkeys
Hey! There’s only 99 monkeys OH NO!
99 Monkeys
Spilled out on to the highway
99 Monkeys
I think I spotted one chillin’ in your driveway
99 Monkeys
New reports say “They may be tainted, and possibly hissing”
99 Monkeys
Wait, now there’s another one missing!!
Chorus:
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
100 Monkeys All over the road
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
That lady thought it was a cat, not a hairy toad!
That poor lady
Who thought it was cats
Stuck her hand in to pet one
Her hand bitten and scratched
She touched their poo poo
She thought she was helping
No. Now she’s got a disease
(whispering discreetly) “monkey herpes!”
Chorus:
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
100 Monkeys All over the road
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
That lady thought it was a cat, not a hairy toad!
What do you say at the end of the day
Pick your monkey feces up with tongs.
All the monkeys were recovered eventually
And no monkeys were harmed in the making of this song
Chorus:
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
100 Monkeys All over the road
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
That lady thought it was a cat, not a hairy toad!
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
100 Monkeys All over the road
100 Monkeys Loose In Pennsylvania
That lady thought it was a cat, not a toad!
@headfirstonly Mar 2022
That looping riff becomes relentless, but the accompanying guitars keep everything fresh and interesting. And what a story - it even made it across the pond...
I'm going to show my age here, but that "bloop bloop bloop" in the loop reminds me of the Joe 90 theme tune...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaINLn4OKGE
@fuzzy Feb 2022
I'm loving that twangy powerline guitar.
Super surreal lyrics here.
Bummer about the monkey herpes, tho.
The laser guitar echoing the vocals is nice.
I like this a lot.
Weirdness right up my alley.