New song: "You're Repulsive"




This one was a pure case of pull. I was just heading to my daily activities of the non-musical kind, when the Muse came straight to me and said:

MUSE: hiya, here is the usual song kit for you, today we have a bit of a melody with a bass line behind. You're welcome. Now here's the deal: you can do with this what you've been doing lately, just record the ideas and put them in your huge pile of unfinished stuff, but I was thinking, maybe you can also rearrange your day, and crank out something quick for that weekly thing you've been doing lately?

ME: oh shit.

I mean, thank you Muse. The song was pieced together in around 3 hours, out of which 40 minutes went to the solo. I had the starting idea for it, opening with a copy of the voice and then moving to something different, and I soon found a second pillar: moving from major scale to pentatonic in the second half increased the "temperature" nicely...

The drums again are rudimentary; one of these times when I really miss having a drummer buddy to whom I can send stuff. But well, there is always time in the future I guess.

I wanted the song finished better than perfect, because otherwise... Something to ponder upon, which toll is worse on one's mind, the unwritten song or the not-finished-recording song.

After the "recording rush" was over, the room looked a bit like a battlefield, but one more time I've found that my systems helped me avoid confussion and keep on moving on and take decissions. After I finished, I could function the rest of the day normally, when only a few years ago, a "burst" of this kind would have left me exhausted, loathing music for a few days, and feeling entitled to all kind of long breaks and dubious treats.

Among influences, this time I'd mention out of the bat the Spanish band Siniestro Total (early records, where their songs lasted 1 minute, like this one :) ), and of course all the Fat Wreck Chords bunch.

YOU'RE REPULSIVE

You're repulsive
You're disgusting
there's too much people like you
you're a coward
can't be lower
you never bring something new

You go to the same supermarket
to buy always the same old shit
you're so abused but it doesn't matter
there's nothing new to see

You're repulsive
You're disgusting
there's too much people like you
you're a coward
can't be lower
you never bring something new

You're an adult for porno and driving
a child for everything else
You're dead inside and ugly on the outside
that's not what I want for me
not what I want for me

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