01 Odd White Thing
| This started out as a simple little acoustic ballad, but Darren felt inspired to turn it into something more modern. It's about a woman who finds a small object that fell from space and captures the soul of everyone who looks at it. I actually created a 25 minute video on the same subject while in film school at the U. of Utah in 1990. |
02 Socially Sanctioned Chemical Bliss
| Electronic rock, regarding the hypocrisy of the war on drugs while 40 million Americans are on Prozac.
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03 Work
| High energy rock. A remake of an earlier Huh? song, for people who feel exploited by their employers and like to fantasize about getting even in ways they never really would.
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04 Nervous
| High energy rock. It was one of those days when I was really being hot on the guitar. Darren had a bass loop going on a cheap sequencer and was playing drums live with little buttons on a drum machine. There is a break in the middle where he had to re-start the bass pattern by hitting the button with his nose! I added the vocals later.
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05 Angela and Tony
| Electronic rock. True story about a woman I knew who decided to get a sex change. Listen carefully to the change of wording in the chorus - "and" becomes "as."
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06 Space Junk
| Bluesy electronic rock loaded with sound effects. Darren and I spent two months trying to get this thing to sound cool, till we were so sick of hearing the bass line we couldn't stand the song any longer. It's about some guys collecting space garbage who encounter a bunch of college kids partying illegally on an asteroid. The original bass line was written by Steve Morrison.
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07 So Sexy
| Rock. Imagine a pocket protector nurd on stage in a bar singing this, getting all tied up in the mic cables, etc., as a really hot looking babe comes in flaunting her stuff.
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08 Mystical Cat in the Dryer
| Mellow rock. Starts out all serious about a cat with magical powers, who ends up being hosed down with water and thrown in a dryer. One of those songs you shouldn't laugh at but will anyway :)
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09 Space Plane
| Mellow rock guitar lead. I set up a "string" loop on the sequencer and pretended I was a whole band playing live - just a bit of practice playing lead guitar but it sounds pretty cool.
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10 Purple Tiger
| The first song Darren and I ever did together - pure childish stupid silliness. We used to have a such a great time . . .
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