This song would be rewritten as “Tellina Lie” and performed band-style. Vocals in bridge just had to go.
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Sara Lee
Pitch for a theme song for Sara Lee Corporation, but the song was too “edgy” and was not actually “played” for them.
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Moving
Originally pitched as a theme song for U-haul, but rejected. Their loss, your gain.
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Satellite of Nothing
Contract work for NASA. Expected to be part of the first manned trip to Mars.
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Something on the Way
Tried to rework a year or two later with a band, didn’t work. Too moody. This song wants to be a happy one. So smile already.
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Loveshirt
Around this time I’d started recording some music with a band, and I had found myself unemployed, so I took advantage of all that free time to make an album. It was a concept album only in the sense that I made the whole thing in a short period of time, so it kind of all fit together.
Figured it would be a good album opener. Basically making up the lyrics as I went. This was my “Hey Bulldog.”
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Babylon
We kind of considered this the end of the “album.” Seemed like we were ending on the right note.
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Diabolickal
Not only did this track provide us with a name for our act, but the laid-back groove gave us our second video, which is sufficiently abstract that I think it holds up pretty well.
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Electrick Eel
This song developed as it went, and gathered meaning in its abstract nature like a snowball rolling downhill. At an epic length of almost six minutes it was our longest track, it kept growing organically until some kind of bizarre feedback-drenched guitar solo came out the other end.