Songs written and recorded in the 4th week of February for FAWM 2010:
11. Auriform – This was a title left over from my attempted Album-A-Day. This song was written for the Week 3 Challenge: Neither Major Nor Minor. I tried to stick to that concept with my chord choice and I incorporated the challenge name into the first line of the song. The lyrics are about my affection for Yoko Kanno’s music. I mention her band “Seatbelts”, but really, I am speaking to her whole musical catalog. There is not a more creative person currently living on the planet that I have heard of. This song is a three chord throwaway song, but I find it catchy.
12. Constant One – This song was written for the Week 4 Challenge: Time. For awhile, I tried not to use the word or concept of “time” in my songwriting because when I first started writing songs, I completely overused it. For this I wanted to write a major-chord-love-song, and I think it came out pretty well for what I intended. The verses seem a little lazy to me and the falsetto parts were added at the time of recording, adding a little variety to the soundscape. This one was recorded hastily and the verse lyrics were improvised at the time of recording. For the second vocal track, I had to stop after each line and listen to the next line from the first vocal track to remember the exact wording. Again, the title and lyrics could point to another song written about the television show Lost, but that really wasn’t the case specifically.
13. Double Take – This song was written for a Songfight!. It was also, surprise, another Songfight! title that I didn’t like. I had the idea of a somewhat debasing song about getting too excited around someone of the opposite sex. The first lines I had for this song were: My eyes did a double take/My dick did a spit take. This line was changed to be less graphic, but the spirit of the song remained. Neither of the three mini-stories that make up the verses were based on any real events from my life, but more from what I would consider the cliché stories that center around the event described in the chorus. Personally, I find this song a bit gross, and I don’t plan on keeping it around where I can listen to it for very long (pun intended).
14. Your Westness Is Upsetting – Last song for FAWM 2010. This song was written and recorded on the last day of FAWM 2010. The title is from the group of 15 titles I got together for the third week of FAWM. Personally, I don’t care about all the celebrity trash gossip that comes out of California. I also don’t care about California’s problems. All states have problems. I can’t find any energy to care about the wild fires, energy crisis, water shortages, budget shortages, gay marriage, or illegal immigration. Everyone has a choice in where they live, and if you want to live in a state that’s in that state, don’t bitch about it. I would think all that misery would somehow be channeled into really great movies, but no. All we get are remakes and sequels. Again, like so many other songs, the verses were improvised at the time of recording. There is quite a bit of energy in this recording, and it was done really quickly, so I am a bit surprised.
That’s it. FAWM is done. If I were to rate my FAWMs in order of quality:
1. 2008
2. 2010
3. 2009
4. 2007
Now, what’s next???
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