Naybors

We live next door to some people who had an unsuccessful yard sale. Everything they failed to sell has remained on their lawn. It's like an abandoned never ending yard sale over there. I realize that we are maybe not everyone's favorite neighbors due to the sometimes rather loud noises associated with recording a song a week in our apartment, but seeing a graveyard of unsold, unwanted CRAP every time we look out our dining room windows makes these people the worst. As I sit typing this I have a fantastic view of a green and blue metal picnic table, an aluminum workbench, two rusty grills and a black, leaf covered love seat. Oh, and two weeks ago, I got to watch as one of the children who lives in this unfortunate household relieved himself outside this same window and then threw one of his little shoes on our doorstep. So this song is just about how we don't particularly appreciate the way these people are living. Sometimes it's hard for me to come up with lyrical content for these Hessian songs Scot composes. I basically closed my eyes and thought of who was annoying me the most at present and made the song about them. Yikes.



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Walk Around The Block

Damn, that was a hard winter. I know we're all glad to see it go. One good thing about being buried under snow for months on end is that you have plenty of time to stay inside and write songs. Well, we did that and I knew there would be some cabin fever striking us pretty hard come April. Don't worry, we can take it. Even though we spent our entire week riding bikes and walking around the block, we are fully committed to seeing this project through. Hopefully we won't wait until Friday to start the songs all Summer long...not my favorite way to make the hits happen. Break out the lime flavored beers and de-hibernate with this springy new song.



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mirror mirror

We're feeling reflective, and since no one submitted an answer to last week's story problem, we decided to write this song about ALL OF YOU! That's what you get. This week's song reminded me of so much, musically. It kicked off with what I thought of as a White Stripes' sound and then the bridge reminded me of a Blondie song that Scot, who wrote the music, isn't even familiar with. Scot thought parts were reminiscent of Steppenwolf and The Strokes. This got me to thinking about how really, everything has been done before. It's all so pasticheous. Every attempt at originality is a failure. Ideas are recyclable, echo-logical. Everything repeats. Like this blog, this whole project, it's not really all that original. We could easily be accused of seeing Julie & Julia a few too many times. Humans are a rather futile race when you think about it, but we're in this together. That's consoling, right? We think so. Instead of concentrating on and striving for such sever originality, which only causes us to drift further away from our own humanity, why not form a powerful superhuman Pangaea? After all, we are the world...see, again, none of this is original thought folks. Doesn't make it any less true.



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Story Problem

If two people start making music at the rate of one song a week for a year, how many songs will they have written in one year's time? That's an example of a story problem. And we'll write a song about the first person to comment with the correct answer. This week's song uses mathematical terminology to solve the problem of a love triangle. Singing calculators and cheerleaders! Hooray, a practical use for math-y stuff.



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Extreme Man

Spring has sprung! The songs are certainly in full bloom around here. We actually had two songs written this week to choose from. We opted to record "Extreme Man" because of the more simplistic musical aesthetic of the song. This will allow us to do two very important things: 1) Spend more time making next week's song as lush and fabulous as it wants to be and 2) GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY NOW!




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Full Drawn

While the title of this week's song is "Full Drawn", it marks the halfway point of our little blog project here. It seems like if a band or artist is around long enough they always end up with at least one Spanish flavored song. And we figured that since we are 26 songs into our 52 song journey it was time for us to do one. Consider this our "La Isla Bonita", or just a tequila fueled duet.



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Don't Wig Out

This week's song is the long awaited, much talked about new Luv Club jam! It's a bit like Ladytron meets Lady Beware. The song is sung from the point of view of an eight-fingered stalker who obsesses over long-haired women because of their ability to grow and regrow hair while he is stuck with two bald spots where his missing fingers once were. Now dance!



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