General Music Chat

hm, tough to place it genre'rally
Almost Weired AL 'esque..?

I had a hard time picking out some lyrics, could be either my crappy headphones,
or the heavy chorusing on the vox.

I found myself wondering if it's not a tune more suited to an acoustic, and a raw voice..? Maybe ballad style..or something..

anyway, my most humble .02

I had a hard time picking out some lyrics, could be either my crappy headphones,
or the heavy chorusing on the vox.

Interesting. I'm so familiar with it that I have no trouble hearing the lyrics, except "Rack o' ribs!" There is very little effect on my vocal.

Here are the lyrics:

An elephant's your daddy.
He tells you what you must and mustn't do.
Make your son a caddy.
Some day he might join the chosen few.

A donkey is your mammy.
She wipes your butt and fills your face with snacks.
Whatever makes you happy
Is cause enough to raise another tax.

Libertarian blues
There's no candidate for me to choose.
No matter how the vote I'm bound to lose.

They say Bill screwed an intern.
The TV pundits made it such a fuss.
Screwin' is illegal
Unless they're doin' all of us.

Libertarian Blues
There's no candidate for me to choose.
No matter who gets in I'm bound to lose.

Choke the smokers, eat no fat.
(Barbecuer: "Mmm, rack o' ribs!")
Lifestyle police is where it's at.
(Cop: "Come out with your hands up, barbecue breath.")
Bureaucracy will fight your fights.
(Helicopter and gunshots)
And eat away your civil rights.
(Politician: "He won't be worryin' 'bout no cholesterol." Applause)

So give away your freedoms
Until there's nothing left to save,
Sing the lawful anthem
To the home of the slave.

Libertarian Blues...

Not a bad song but not one I'd run out and buy your album for. I agree the vocals are not distinct, I could make out a few lines here and there but only because I read the lyrics last night. (would have posted a comment then but I was on my other computer and for some reason it won't play the sound files. Linux...rarely have problems with it but a couple of little things like that...)
Reminds me of 10CC a little.

I'll have to listen to it again and see if I pick anything else out, one listen is not enough to really form a definite opinion, but that first listen doesn't grab my ears and make me crank it up...probably the same for my song a few posts down, especially since it's a laid back acoustic instrumental. 57 views and one comment tells me as much as a dozen critiques...strange, because people like it quite well played live...musicians included. May be the same for this one, recording loses some of the live feel. Plus mine's a crummy recording...

Technically proficient - sounds like you had fun composing it . . .
The lyrics are good; but, like the others, I probably wouldn't have understood most of them without first reading them.
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Kinda reminds me of Zappa. Is that the kind of sound you were looking for, or was it just what the song asked of you?
I know that sometimes it doesn't matter much what we want from a song; sometimes what matters is what the song wants from us . . .
I got kind of a humerous, whimsical overtone from this . . .

Kinda reminds me of Zappa. Is that the kind of sound you were looking for, or was it just what the song asked of you?

Good ear. I was indeed going for a Zappa-like quality. The song demanded whimsy. The triple guitar solo, for example: what's a song about Libertarians without a bit of chaos? Zappa was great, especially onstage, with chaos that suddenly becomes rock-solid.

One other connection: Zappa was courted by the Libertarian Party to be their presidential candidate -- back in the 1970s, I think. He considered it, but decided it wasn't for him.

One other connection: Zappa was courted by the Libertarian Party to be their presidential candidate -- back in the 1970s, I think. He considered it, but decided it wasn't for him.

He found out why they are more often than not called the "Looneytarians".

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He found out why they are more often than not called the "Looneytarians".

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He pretty much was one. When Tipper Gore wanted to censor music, Zappa was before Congress. When the Iron Curtain fell, Zappa offered to represent Czechoslovakia in the US. Dan Quayle was scheduled to talk with Vaclav Havel. Zappa, meeting in Prague, commented, "It's a shame that somebody as intelligent as Havel had to spend one minute talking with someone as dumb as Dan Quayle."

The Secretary of State re-routed his trip to Moscow. He stopped to tell the Czechs, "Either you do business with Zappa, or you do business with the United States."

That was the end of Frank's participation.

To discern how much faith Frank had in big-government solutions, which are the stock in trade of both major parties, one need only sample such tracks as "The Meek Shall inherit Nothin'",

I remember watching the PMRC hearings on TV, with Zappa on the panel. It should be textbook stuff for anyone wanting to know how to talk to government.