21 February 2004 (Saturday)
MP3 Demo - Download Here (1.7mb)
Okay, so this is my crappy tribute song. I spent all week trying to write a song for Alan Turing, the famous mathematician to whom modern computer science owes nearly everything but committed suicide because when the British government found out he was gay they revoked his security clearance, considered him a national threat, and forced him to take estogen therapy to "cure him." Needless to say, with such weighty subject matter I had a difficult time doing it justice.
SOoo... since I'm headed out the door in a few minutes and won't have time tonight to make a tribute song, I wrote a quick ode to Jennifer Connelly, whom I had a major crush on as a kid every since I saw the movie Labyrinth. The tune is kinda reminiscent of real early Lemonheads stuff, I think. I'll write that Alan Turing song someday.
Jennifer
lyrics/music by Burr Settles
hidden somewhere in the labyrinth of my heart
is a space for some girl so demure
it's a hot spot, a career opportunity
I could be your rocketeer for sure
this may just be a requiem for my dreams
you've got a beautiful mind, and a beautiful everything
oh, Jennifer
I love her, Jennifer!
what I'd give to see you walkin' down the $treet
in this dark city, sur les étoiles
I can't think of anything else to say
a phenomenon is what you are!
this may just be a requiem for my dreams
you've got a beautiful mind, and a beautiful everything
oh, Jennifer
I love her, Jennifer!
Comments: 6
PS: THIS is now my fastest turn-around time for a song... I went from scratch-nothin' to a recorded piece in less than an hour and a half.
burr [01:39PM CST 21-Feb-2004]
numero 10 - all conspired against me
why couldn't you have finished that turing song? i would've been interested since i work with cellular automata and have read some early stuff by von neumann and turing (not much though).
AND... MY tribute song is called "jennifer". different jennifer, though, with potential for a change of song title. i'll be recording in the wee hours tonight after CRACKER and THE STEPHANIES play tonight...
willis [08:04PM CST 21-Feb-2004]
just listened to it. that is so cool that you can get that sound in so little time. i am in the recording dark ages. reminded me slightly of good will hunting/miss misery/elliot smith...
willis [08:10PM CST 21-Feb-2004]
I can hear the Dando influence on this one...my favorite part is the Requium for a Dream prechorus...the actual chorus is pretty cheesy, but oh well...for spitting it out, it sounds pretty good. Great use of movie titles in the verses.
hopper [09:07PM CST 21-Feb-2004]
re: the chorus... i actually had in mind a second harmony echo sort of thing, but i ran out of time so i just posted it as is.
burr [11:40PM CST 21-Feb-2004]
y'know... for as lame as this song ended up, i like the tune. i may trash the lyrics, but recycle the music into something else in the future. the interesting thing is, that if i hadn't forced myself to just do SOME crappy tribute song, i wouldn't have even ended up with this tune... just a thought. so there's value in this even if the songs themselves aren't too valuable.
burr [03:29PM CST 22-Feb-2004]