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Grey Days,
Techno Nights -1/3/01
This, of course, became "Black Days Techno Nights," and got a lot slower, too. This is the very first song I actually wrote for the band itself -- by now, pOp*stAr*kiDs the live band was only about two months old, and I wrote this with the specific concept "set opener" in mind. It was inspired by the Veruca Salt song "Straight." We still open sets with it. Fan Club -1/5/01 This is a song that really became another entity when we recorded it for the Revenge album. But I fell in love with it as soon as I heard it in my head. Sort of a Gary Glitter-by-way-of-Daft Punk kind of thing. Three chords, one melody and an unrelenting groove. Ripe -2/7/01 I didn't pay this song too much mind until early 2005. Now it's become a staple. I love the piledriving, AC/DC quality of it; it is so much fun to play live. It'll be fun to re-record it, too. That's me playing with the EQ on the outro rhythm guitar. Flowerbeds, Broken Heads -2/01 The embryonic original version of Flowerbeds has a slightly more trippy feel and slightly more ridiculous lyrics. Enjoy! Time Bomb -2/18/01 I wanted to write a bunch of songs based on fuzzed-out, single-note, unison bass-n-guitar lines, no chords. This was the first one. Would love to work it up someday. The heads on my mix-down deck were totally fucked at this point in time, which you can hear in the swimmy distortion. Kinda adds to the ambience, really. Love Is Burning In Yr Garden -2/19/01 You probably know this one from the Revenge CD. Of course we've got G$ singing that bridge now, which is way cool. Playing this song live always makes me wanna break stuff, and I usually do. Poor guitar. Losing My Mind -2/20/01 The third song in my "no chords" trilogy. Another one I'd love to whip up for public consumption someday. The lyrics were inspired by a guy I knew who, at the time, was losing his mind, not to mention all his money, his friends and livelihood, to a nasty cocaine addiction. Thankfully he eventually got his shit back together. So Bored -7/01 More hairy single-note riffery. Really love the guitars in this song. I Live Alone -8/01/01 I love the guitar sounds on this. The big unison riff section after the solo is something I always get a kick out of hearing. A bit heavier than what I normally do. The World in My Eyes -8/01/01 Not a Depeche Mode cover! This song was written in about 30 seconds. Get Up and Fight -8/01/01 This ditty was written very quickly (hmmm...now that I think of it, the verse sounds quite like the verse from "Saved My Life 2Nite"...). The chorus is nice and sturdy, though. We thought about adding this to the live set for a minute, but then opted for "Flowerbeds" instead. Drive Into the Sky -8/01/01 Another heavy one -- I imagine this would be fun to play live. The line "be careful of the witches in the clouds/ someone's gonna die, drive into the sky" kind of freaked me out a few weeks later when 9/11 happened. Just a weird coincidence, but freaky anyway. Empty -8/01 This should be a country/western song. From the Murray Hill Sessions of late August, 2001. Thank you Scarlett! |
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