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UNACCEPTABLE!
SERIOUSLY, WTF?! We are fucked. Tags: brutality, bush, capitalism, cheaters-always-win, cheney, China, corporations-will-be-the-end-..., death, destroyer, douchebags, environment, fascism, fucked-up-shit, global-warming, Impeachment, invasion, jesus, mccain, natural-disasters, neo-cons, news, Nixon, over-the-top, politics, religion, religion-crime, republicans, ridiculous, robot-overlords, sad, surrealism, technologyPosted by ryan on 23 Apr 2008 at 02:10 pm Ruby Isle vs. elbo.ws #4 - Destroyer “Foam Hands”This week’s number one on elbo.ws is Destroyer’s “Foam Hands” I don’t know what this Dan Bejar character is putting in the bloggers’ cereal, but they sure love him!!! The first song we did in this project was by his new band Hello, Blue Roses. That was only three weeks ago! The new song is much more of a songwriter song than the HBR song, but we still had to take some artistic license with it to make it a pop jam. Again, this whole thing with Dan Bejar and Destroyer is weird because our friend Rob Carmichael put out a destroyer record and so did our other friend Phil Waldorf . Someday that guy is going to find us and kill us. Here is what Mark had to say about the track: “Strong pop doesn’t waste time, I always say, and FOAM HANDS begins straight away. It’s a pretty straight forward v/c/v/c/v/c progression in the key of E. The tempo is, as in Black Mountain TYRANTS, drifts somewhere around 80 bpm. The instrumentation is your basic 4 piece rock setup, but the singer does whistle in the final moments of the song. It’s the cryptic lyrics which really make this song stand out, and give it a surreal quality against the simple, albeit hook laden, musical backdrop.” This one was a little different in its construction because Mark only sent me the guitar and vocal to start out with. He recorded it really early in the morning so he had to sing it really quiet an ocatve lower. In order for me to hear it in the correct octave, he pitched it so it sounded like a chipmunk. This was really annoying and made my first attempt at writing for it pretty awful. I sent Mark what I had and he somehow extracted some magic out of my hooks. He took what I called the “Journey Part” and made it into a really great reprise. We found some drums that worked and we twisted a simple bassline I had constructed around to make it a little less direct. Finally to top it off Mark’s roomate laid down that ripping guitar solo which really put it over the top. This one became more of an indie pop song than our other efforts in this project and I am really excited about how catchy the chorus is. We hope you enjoy it. And we give you: Ruby Isle - Foam Hands (Destroyer Cover).mp3. Tags: Covers, destroyer, elbo.ws, movies, music, pop culture, Ruby-IslePosted by dan on 13 Dec 2007 at 10:11 am |
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