Ed Makes Things

I’m digging back into “Dancing For Patriotism” for today’s song. Because I was channeling my inner Dillinger Escape Plan for the album, odd meters and time changes were very abundant throughout the whole proceedings. This tune is a good example of that – the opening riff alternates between 6 and 5 and the sung sections’ riff goes back and forth between 5 and 6. Oddly enough, I found the melody line more difficult to record than the drums in those parts…

Drums recorded by Rich Wattie in Montage Music Hall, Rochester, NY. Everything else recorded at home by me. All instruments, mixing, lead vocals by me. Additional vocals by Adam Donnelly.

The Usual Riots

To “celebrate” Monday, I give you one of the strangest songs I’ve ever written. I kept hearing this “‘Bring me your cellulite and I will’ *metal*” idea in my head, so I had to use it. As the glorious song title and the first lyric line might detail, this song is about a somewhat emotionally disturbed liposuction doctor… who, for some odd reason, runs his practice in a mall. In true strange song and prog-metal fashion, not a single measure of 4/4 time is to be had here. Enjoy!

Drums recorded by Mike Huurman at The Dank Pit (r.i.p.), everything else recorded by me at home. All instruments, mixing by me.

Paging Dr. Hoover

In honor of the wild card teams going 1-3 over the weekend, here’s a song I wrote about that phenomenon back in January of 2007. I was recording a small Football Project at the time. The statistics in the second round of the playoffs heavily favor the home teams, so I figured why not write a song about it? Incidentally, the “Watch out for Tigger!” towards the end of the track is a reference to news of a Disney World employee in the Tigger costume punching a 13-year-old boy in the face. Production, mixing, all instruments by me.

Plight Of The Wild Card Teams (You’re Just Gonna Lose Next Week)

Here’s another track from 2007’s “Dancing For Patriotism”, and one of my favorites from that album. One of the things I tried to do with this song – and I’d like to think I succeeded – is to be patient with some musical ideas, but not to an extent where the song drags on and loses its punch. Lyrically, we can put this in the pantheon of “Ed’s Songs That Sound Serious But Don’t Actually Make Any Sense” (though the title probably gives that away). Structure-wise, it’s one of the longest intros I’ve ever done. Enjoy!

Drums recorded by Rich Wattie in Montage Music Hall, Rochester, NY. Everything else recorded at home by me. All instruments, mixing by me.

The Voices Tell Us to Burn Things

Here’s another track from the album “Bowling Is Metal”. This song will also be on the set list when …Of Doom! starts to play shows. Blame my cousin Jason for the bad pun in the first line of the first verse. The worse pun in the song’s title, though, is completely my fault.

Drums recorded by Mike Huurman, everything else recorded by me. All instruments and mixing by me.

None Shall Be Spared