Track 11 - Helen, My Drummer's Illin'
These are the original lyrics to "Helen, My Drummer's Illin'", from the The Politics of Pungency album, as transcribed by Mark Rathke in the liner notes, circa 1999:
Grit teeth, back beat everyone knows
Sure shot, back slot there goes the phone
Helen, my drummer's illin'
Somewhere, I think I'm failin'
Can't seem, to get it chillin'
Mark's axe, is now a wailin'
See me, back here in town for the show
Watch me, stay clear, it's all going to blow
Get down, shake down along with the band
High speed, break down make your own stand
Kiyard karma, a quizzical man
Buddhist dharma, you understand
And here is a copy of the "Helen, My Drummer's Illin'" MP3 that mark pulled off the original CD:
HelenMyDrummersIllin.mp3
This song, like Flushboy, is another one of those later BR songs that has a feel of the older stuff to it. In fact, I'm not sure whether it's the original recordings or what, but this one is even clipping like crazy! It's bad to the point of being ALMOST unlistenable. Fortunately, what the song lacks in audio Fidelity, it makes up for with some very amusing vocals ramblings.
I particularly like how I talk over the guitar solo, and the bit at the beginning of the song where I spend the first 30 seconds of the song talking about how I'm ready to start singing the song whenever it starts. I'm pretty sure that this is a one-take recording with regards to the vocal. I like Mark's mix on it, too. The panning, and the delay is pretty good stuff, too.
After a careful listen of this, I think that I may have been making the vocals up on the spot. One of the things that give it away is the fact that one of the lyrics is "there goes the phone" and if you listen, the phone starts ringing, and I start laughing right before I 'sing' that. Hey, I don't know what to tell you. That's just the way Baboon Rising rolls.
"Okay, here's the problem...the chorus is coming, but I have no idea when..."
Ahahahaha. Classic, my friends. CLASSIC.
2 Comments:
The only real clipping in this song is at around 2:57 when you make that weird Mexican andale laugh. But, ah yes, this is more like classic Flabby Road era BR. See, if you would have stayed in the band, we might have found a happy medium between metal and trippy hippy music.
Hrm. I'll have to give it another listen. I had my Sony MDR's on, and the whole song seemed a bit hot, and I just listened to 'Rising of the Baboon' and it sounded fine. I'm not sure what I was hearing.
There is no happy medium, by the way. You're either with me, musically, or you're with the TERRARISTS!11
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