So I saw the thread about 'FAWM is a team sport' where someone divided all of us into 'category-what your avatar is' and calculated statistics for 'how many people with a microphone vs a drum vs an oboe have written songs, how many songs, etc. I remarked 'meaningless statistics are fun' and then thought... that's a song! and here it is
spent way too long trying to salvage a primitive iphone music memos recording into something useful- should have just recorded multi track from the start, ah well.
EDIT-- and now, the day after FAWM ended, I decided that the primitive iPhone recording with the half-buried vocal just doesn't do the song justice, and I want to have it on my upcoming bandcamp album- so I recut the song from scratch, with a drum loop, acoustic rhythm guitar thru a distortion pedal, electric bass guitar, vocal, and lead guitar using my old Mexican Strat electric guitar with a bunch of effects on it. Hope it gets across better (curious what folks think of the mix- vocal too low? too loud? i never know!)
1
So many things divide us
Politics, religion, the things we read and see
There is so little agreement
Mention any issue, and someone will disagree
You might find someone who agrees with what you said
But maybe you said it a slightly different way
The battle lines are drawn,
That wall you built is there to stay
The only agreement this seems to be a rule
Meaningless statistics are awesome and cool !
2
How many songs went to number one three times
How many feet is the deepest coal mine
How often did Babe Ruth strike out
How many ‘stifle edith’ did Archie shout
How many notes did Charlie Parker miss
How many times was Bette Davis kissed?
How many presidents were senator first
In the big Lebowski, how many times did John Goodman curse
The only thing uniting us, the best social tool
Meaningless statistics are awesome and cool
3
There are people who dispute the election
People who dispute whether vaccines work
People who love misdirection
People who love calling other people jerks
they might disagree on if the earth is flat
but agree on the most popular youtube of a cat
the number of home runs hit with a certain type of bat
the number of movies Humphrey Bogart did not wear a hat
the only thing uniting us, in fact it makes us drool
meaningless statistics are awesome and cool !
(c) M. Skliar 2022
@gm7 Mar 2022
My ear are having fun with this!! Statically speaking 100% satisficed.
@headfirstonly Mar 2022
You were right to go back and rebuild this from the ground up. This is GLORIOUS! I love the mildly exasperated tone of this, even though it is ultimately celebratory. Statistics *are* cool! When I was a kid, stats were a way of imposing order on the worId (I had most of the Guinness Book of Records memorised by the time I was eight, which maybe explains more about me than it does the rest of the world...)
But I would be so, SO tempted to amend the title of this to "87% of Meaningless Statistics..."
@didib Mar 2022
Brilliant and very funny
@mikegtz Feb 2022
Great job on this one. Mike! Cool and funky! Nice recording, too!
@fiats Feb 2022
Awesome and cool!
@elesimo Feb 2022
Ah, what a great song at the 11th hour, Mike! So good, so good! It's definitely on the top 3% of all blues song written in FAWM on a Monday!