Here's a track by track description so you have something to read when you get bored listening:
1. Vanilla sex and garlic eyes I tried this method http://www.songmd.com/col_hitlyrics.shtml to get out of my continuing lyricwriting-crisis. At step two of the method you have to write a nonsensical lyric on you melody. In the case of the first three songs I decided to stick with those lyrics because they were more fun to me than my "serious" attempts which usually end of quite depressing. So lyrically this record switches between complete nonsense and boring moody muttering. 2. It's easier when you don't care How true! Based on a blogpost-title by my favourite RPMer (I just hope she finished her album this year. It's been awfully quiet in her profile lately) I recorded the guitar and bass-parts this year through a Vox Pathfinderamp at relatively neighbourfriendly levels. That worked really well here I think. 3. Last day at the office Another nonsense lyric, but I quite like: "a portable swimmingpool, cemented in the lawn, some R&B beeyatch with Gucci flipflops on" I quite like how the sound came out (apart from the vocals as always) Even the pitchshifted second sologuitar at the end sounds really good. (Well done, Erik! Well, thank you, Erik) 4. The worlds most miserable song This was partly meant for a challenge someone put out in the forum to make the most tearjerking/depressing song ever. Because of the flu I didn't make the deadline, but that only adds to the miserableism of the whole thing. 5. The lost generation As if the last one wasn't miserable enough. This lyric is about "the lost generation"; the generation that came right after the babyboom-generation and was more or less written of by the babyboomers in the eighties when a lot of them were jobless for years. In the nineties a lot of them were ushered back into jobs again but the good positions are still mostly in the hands of babyboomers and more and more their kids (I know this is an odd subject that probably doesn't translate that well to other people. And it's also not a very good lyric. I'm very much inbetween generations, being the last in a rather large family, and these things do have influence on how your life turns out) 6. Underachievers Anonymous More nonsense lyrics. I quite like the tune though and the vocals are also acceptable for a change. 7. Lights speeding home The lyrics are kinda cliché. I like the tune itself. I tried to make a song similar to Femme Fatale or I'll be your Mirror by the Velvet Underground but it's nothing like that. I though it had a driving-at-night-atmosphere, so I made the lyrics to go with that (I don't even have my driving license though, and no wife and kids either) 8. I only want to procrastinate I started recording this on 28 february and added lyrics and vocals two hours before midnight the 29th. It's my favourite now though it's kinda dumb. I started with a drumrythm from a crappy Yamaha Portasound keyboard. When I started recording songs when I was like 14 or something I used it through a guitaramp in an attempt to make it sound acceptable. So that's what I did now. Without me realizing it I finished the whole song in this spirit with the simple E,Aminor chords and repetitive lyrics. I'm going completely oldskool here :-) 9. One big Eurocity The title is nicked from a line in a Tuxedomoon-song. I wanted to have lyrics for this one about travelling and coming across similarities in different cities in Europe. But, alas, no time left. It's an instrumental now. 10. Nightflight to the sun I made a lot of guitarbased tunes this year so here I started with synths and stuff. I quickly started to sound like an Italodiscotrack so I added the compulsary cheesy lyrics to go with it. Though, like in Vamos a la Playa, I tried to add some more serious subtext; the nightflight could be a metaphor for life and the sun for whatever is coming next. But that's not very clear here I guess (and it doesn't make the whole thing less camp) 11. Mermaid My Casio-tune (for the Casio Challenge) Recorded through a microphone so you can hear me tapping away at the crappy little keys of the SA-3. Since it started to sound very sinister and reminded me also of the sea I wanted to add lyrics about the Natalee Holloway-case (which was big in the media in the Netherlands at that time, and has a lot of interesting angles) but also not enough time to do that properly.
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