New Recording!: "Burning In 5/9"

wredfright · Burning In 5/9

This song stems from an old Angry Housewives session.  We might have been the Lenin Spoonful by then, as Dave and I had added our pal Damon to the mix.  Mainly, the gag was to just jam until we came up with some fun music, then pass around a notebook Exquisite Corpse style to create the lyrics with sometimes the reverse happening.  Though we had a lot of fun doing this, rarely did any substantial songs result.  This one is a rarity and survived into Yeast? when the three of us turned that from a solo project of mine into a band.  It was on the Crisco Disco cassette, which was me solo mainly, and was one of our early songs as a band.  It's fun to play, which may explain why it periodically surfaces in my sets to this day (it just dropped out again, but I will not be surprised if it resurfaces).  In any case, it hung around long enough this time that I recorded a new version of it.  The older versions didn't have the Slayeresque lead guitar intro, which I added to flesh out the song, which was otherwise just verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus.  It is not in 5/9 time, which sounds like something only a prog rock band would attempt anyway.  The lyrics are generally silly.  The "atomic delivery, sign a release form" refers to Sharon, Pennsylvania USA's iconic Quaker Lube restaurant (apparently, they had some gimmick then, and maybe still do, where if you ordered the hottest wings, you had to sign a liability release).  The "George, Barbara called" line is a reference to the then president, the awful first George Bush (and the sequel was even worse).  I think my favorite line is "Please, please, the doctor's name is Rudolph!" which makes no sense but just amuses me.  The chorus means nothing really, just a reference to what living in the USA with morons in charge does to the mind of anyone sensible over time (sadly, that has not changed, perhaps explaining the song's continued relevance underneath all the surrealism).  As usual on these recordings, I played everything.  The weirdo element this time is a Christmas decoration that makes sound.  Not that this song needed anything extra to be weird . . .

To hear more music by the trio of me, Dave, and Damon, check out the first Yeast? 7", not reissued, just never sold!