Bananas are not:
- going extinct
- poisonous when frozen,
- hallucinogenic when smoked,
- going to kill us all.
They are also, however, not without secrets.
We Lit The Night – listen[mp3]
Some day, I will form a band called, and release an album entitled, The Milwaukee Gas Station Incident.
It Could Be Worse – listen[mp3]
Deshead wasn’t feeling himself, so Figure 8 recorded and submitted this track to Songfight.
Shut Up And Sit Down – listen[mp3]
I wrote this for the Shut Up And Sit Down Songfight. I made a few changes after submitting it to Songfight - most significantly, the lead guitar is fatter and sits better in the mix.
I’ve never known what to call the genre in which this tune belongs. It’s like a slew of my favorite songs, all built around a variation on Em-B7-A-C7, but none of them quite fitting the same HMV category. There’s Big Rude Jake’s Song For Lilly Christine, which is close to straight-up swing, but also close to Stray Cat Strut which can probably safely be called “swing punk”. The Stray Cats, in turn, have a sound like the Old 97’s Just Like California which is closer to rockabilly than anything else, yet also similar to Ron Hawkins’ Three Penny Operator, especially the live version, which is what? … Blues?
The songs, mine included, all have a resolution (with key adjusted) from C7 to B7. Strip away the trumpets and saxes and Setzers and Millers, maybe that’s what ties them together. So, VI7-III7-a-billy?