The time was 9:30pm and I had nothing. So I threw together my attempt at a children’s song called “Days of the Week” and it’s probably the weirdest song I’ve ever written. Here are the words!
Running so late on a Monday.
Running so late on a Tuesday.
Running so late on a Wednesday.
Running so late on a Thursday.
Running so late on a Friday.
Running late, running late, running late!
Gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower.
Running late, running late, running late!
Gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower, gotta take a shower.
Not running out of time anymore.
I have lots of time to find the door.
Not running out of time anymore.
My alarm went off just before four minutes of 10.
It’s Saturday!
It’s Sunday…
Marketing
Finally finished tonight’s songling. I kind of cheated because I wanted to go to Trivia. So I didn’t write this song today. Well, I did write about half of the words, but the music has been around for a few months. But I could never find anything to do with it. Figured it’d make a Grand Daily Song. Plus it gave me an excuse to work on it and sort of “finish” it. I like it more than I thought I would. It’s a pop song with a standard arrangement. And I hope my boss(es) don’t get offended. I don’t REALLY hate the radio. I love the radio! It just follows the storyline. Here are the words:
Getting a Liberal Arts degree.
This sounds like fun, I can watch TV.
Critiquing movies and episodes.
Then get a job in the radio.
One year as a Computer Scientist was enough.
I like computers, but I hate computers.
Fuck computers. I love you.
And all of the kids took Psychology courses, to be cool.
And I did. And I was. I think.
All this, society would say, was a waste
Drop some courses, fail some courses, then wait.
One degree and a mediocre band…
Now I’ve learned how to turn you into a number.
And that’s it.
God dammit I’m a marketer.
I just realized I’m a marketer.
I’m part of everything that’s wrong with everything that’s wrong with everything.
God dammit I’m a marketer.
I just realized I’m a marketer.
I’m part of everything that’s wrong with everything that’s wrong with everything.
I hate the radio.
I hate the radio.
I hate the radio.
I hate the radio.
My New Mascot Friends (In a Cave)
First song success! It’s only the first night but I’m already feeling good about the week. Time from conception to finished product: 3.5 hours. Stay tuned for another new song to be posted tomorrow night at 11pm! I reckon’ I’ll start writing it as soon as I get off work tomorrow around six. Can I complete a song and still make it to trivia at Locos at 9:30? OH WE’LL SEE. Here are the words to tonight’s songling:
A lady said that she was a bear.
I said no ma’am you are not a bear.
She gave a roar and to my surprise -
She was a bear in a girl disguise.
Time stood still.
Now, follow me, me.
She took me back to her hideaway.
Behind her house she showed me the way.
There stood a 15-foot-tall giraffe.
It was a giraffe in a girl disguise.
My new mascot friends in a cave.
Reposting my favorite song from 2009’s Nick’s Daily Song blog, “Quit Waking Me Up.” Starting on Monday night, March 22nd, I’m going to do a week of new Daily Songs. If you’re unfamiliar, each day I will come up with some sort of original idea and run with it. The plan is to have 7 brand-new, fully-produced tunes by the end of the week. Some of them will be bad. Some of them will be good. This is one from August 18th, 2009.
“For No One” by The Beatles, arranged for one guitar and vocal, recorded in one take. The mix is rough intentionally. It’s not really a hollygorock tune but I’ll post it anyways. Who is to say what is and isn’t a hollygorock tune anyway? I’m proud of this!
Here’s the original demo of “Look at the Time, Baby.” This was a ‘daily song’ I wrote and posted to the intarwebs on December 15th, 2005. I think I’ll start posting lost tracks and songs from my old bands every now and again.
About four years ago I thought about doing an EP of Screeching Weasel covers. I did all of the music for 4 songs but never recorded the words. I finished the words to this song tonight, 4 years later. Hooray! It’s called Totally and it’s from the band’s 1993 album Anthem For a New Tomorrow. I definitely have songs by other bands in the works for the next few weeks. I guess Thursday night is cover song night!
For the second week in a row I’ve recorded a cover song. Might do this for a few more weeks. This time it’s 1985’s Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears. I cut out a few parts of the song to make it more hollygorock-ish so hopefully you TFF fans won’t mind the missing words. Have any ideas for more songs to cover? I made an album over at BandCamp to stream the cover songs, and also made a new album to stream all of the newer demos from the Nick’s Daily Song blog. Anyway, here’s the latest song:
Decided to record a Guided by Voices song called Sad If I Lost It. Was going to do another acoustic video but I went ahead and did a studio recording after work. Turned out just fine. It’s track two from the band’s 1997 Mag Earwhig! album. The Telecaster was in the Jeep so I used the ol’ Harmony from the flea mall behind McDonald’s. I kind of like the idea of recording a different cover song every week to see if anything cool happens. Maybe next week I’ll do a They Might Be Giants song. Yeah!
Good night in the studio yesterday. Worked on vocal harmonies. Finalized a set list. Did some work with a Casio keyboard and an eeePC. A medley of beats and melodies. Samples from The Matrix and Ally Sheedy movies. Might take a couple of pictures tonight. Dan Cloud is in town again which makes everyone happy. Wrote down on the dry-erase board four more songs that might be performed in a live setting. Here is one of them:
