Whirley's Coming!
Liner Notes
#4track #indiefolk #singersongwriter
After having recorded all 14 "mainline" FAWMsongs using entirely analog recording methods, I figured doing some digital additions for... I guess what you'd call the "encore" tracks I do between now and midnight tomorrow is acceptable. This one is exceptionally limited in that regard, because all I did was add a spoken sample!
There's this PopCap game called Dynomite (kinda like Bust-a-Move) where in a few modes every minute or so a snake warns you that "Whirley's coming!" and if you don't stop Whirley from reaching the top another color is added to the eggs you have to match - so from 3 colors to 4 colors, or 4 to 5. I've had that game on the mind recently and I thought I'd use the phrase as a jumping off point for a song kinda about Whirley but not really.
Fun fact: the stereo guitars are capoed differently and play different shapes, meeting sort-of in the middle to create monstrous megachords that I have no idea how to begin notating! Music is awesome.
Lyrics
Every sign all up and down Tells you who'll be in this town Causin' trouble with eggs galore From the Pizza Hut to the grocery store
On the roads in his Pontiac His radio's loud and his tires are wack Taking time to check my head I'll tell you what I said way back when:
"Uh, Whirley's coming!"
I wouldn't try and intervene He's been known to be evergreen When he's gone we'll spend the time Cleaning up the crud he left behind
Comments
![[FAWM]](/static/img/demoduck.svg)
I'm envious of the ability to do the monstrous megachords. It's something I still need to learn to noodle out better.