Worst. Song. Title. Ever. And darn close to my FAWM song "That's My Fly-Cathching Logic Bear" that I had just written a week or two earlier. Thanks SongFight!. I had three or four (edit: turns out there were five) separate ideas for this one.
1. Write a love song along the lines of...you can get me the stupidest birthday card in the world and I'd just love you more. I was not planning on actually using the title in the song, it would just be implied that it referred to the birthday card.
2. Submit "That's My Fly-Catching Logic Bear" with a badly dubbed "Robot Ninja Zombie" recorded over the "Fly-Catching Logic" lines. I like my original song too much to condemn a hacked-up version of it to the SongFight! archive.
3. Write a j-rock inspired anime-theme type song, probably in badly translated Japanese. Someone already posted lyrics in Japanese on SongFight!, so I decided not to be a "me too" and tried to find a more unique approach.
4. Write a not-so-flattering song about a girl comparing her to each adjective in turn, i.e. "you look like a robot, you love like a ninja, you look like a zombie, you smell like a bear". The next part would involve other ideas like priate, princess, etc. Again, I didn't get very far with this concept because someone posted something similar to the lyrics page on SongFight!.
5. My final idea (melody and all) came into my head on Saturday night. Basically, the lyrics would be about writing a forgettable song about a forgettable girl and giving it the stupidest name possible so no one would remember what it was actually about. This is the one I went with. I wrote and recorded it Tuesday afternoon, after listening to The Pillows all the way home from work. I was originally intending to end the song with the title, but ended up with kind of a punchline by ending the song with another rediculous, but ultimately cooler, title from the songfight archives. Two other ideas for this song were concidered and discarded. Originally between each line about "writing a forgettable song" I was going to insert a line from a previous SongFight! that I had written. Then, the idea morphed into inserting lines from songs that I had not written for and ending with the first line of my first SongFight! song. This didn't happen either, but that's how "Living At The Corner Of Dude And Catastrophe" got in my head.
- For the final song there are two guitars, panned mostly, a bass, and an effect that I originally wanted to do with multi-tracked vocals, but forgot when I was recording it and then ran out of time. There are also four vocal tracks. A doubled lead, and a doubled background. I was making the lines up as I recorded, so the singing is weak in places. I also cut down on the amount of drum fills on the ol' drum machine, in an effort to not make them sound so fake. The whole song was written, recorded, and done between 5:30 and 8:00 p.m. on 16-Mar-2010. I like "That's My Fly-Catching Logic Bear" infinitely better.
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