Well here it is - the Christmas song. This has the be the most arse about tit way a song could possible be written/recorded as I decided to work out how to use Logic in the process. So rather ridiculously I decided to spend an hour doing improv piano tracks which I could then whittle down into the good bits and then whittle further into the bits of the good bits which actually fitted together. In the end I think I ended up with none of the best bits but some of the bits which did fit (somewhat) together. So I ended up at 9 minutes. I got quite attached to that version as it really flowed and had some great other bits but knew that I'd be hogging the compilation cd so I ruthlessly culled it, bringing her in at 5'26".
Hallucinate (a Happy Christmas) by Crayola Lectern
I think there is something left resembling a song - although not in a particularly conventional structure and I couldn't manage some rudimentary recording things like having stereo tracks etc! I wouldn't say it's the best thing I've done but at least I know how not to record in the future.
Lyrically it name-checks a few carols and even Boney M get a look in in line 6.
Hallucinate (a Happy Christmas)
When freezy sparkles glitter in the starlit wintry sky,
As Santa's slaves in sweatshops toil to feed the Christmas lie,
And good king Wenceslas looks out upon the Tesco's store,
Makes Twinkle Twinkle little star not want to shine no more,
But rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,
For Mary's boy child, Jesus Christ was born for you to slay.
(It's a time for) gluttony,
(It's a time for) poverty,
(It's a time for) slavery,
(And it's a time for) faux bonhomie,
(It's a time for) greed,
(It's a time for) slaughter,
Yeah, slaughter and greed,
(It's a time for) robbery,
(Oh, it's a time for) evil,
Evil, oh evil.
Hallucinate a happy Christmas (etc)
7 comments:
Hello Crayola Lectern, sorry so slow, taken me awhile to overcoms the paranoi, got to the point of signing in on a couple of occasions, this might be another of them. Love the song, seems you have managed to encapsulate pretty well the entire of recorded human history. Which is, of course, the history of genocide, oppression, mass murder and slavery and don't let anyone say different. Christmas eh! What a load of fucking mumbo jumbo. Well done, love the voice, reminds me of Dory Previn. Jem x
Cheers for that, Trotsky. True words indeed. So, where do I start with Dory Previn? x
Hi C, might suggest
Mythical Kings and Iguanas, Moon Rock or A Stone foe Bessy Smith, if you fancy a few tears. Trotsky x
Hi C,
More on the Dory Previn front, her lah-de-dah composer husband left her for The Actress Mia Farrow,the emotions of which she aired in a couple of songs, notable the line 'lemon haired ladies of twenty and four, comming in the door and swagging off your husband' great album is called 'Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign' the person who 'bought a stone for Bessy Smith and forgot she had not paid for her own' was Janis Joplin. Hope you like Dory as much as I do, in fact we had a conversation in The Donmar Warehouse that,if I remember correctly went something like 'D.P: 'Thank you all so much for comming here tonight' Trotsky 'On the contrary, thank YOU so much for comming all the way to London to sing for US.' D.P. 'Pardon'. Trotsky: 'Thank YOU for comming here.' D.P: 'Oh, I see, thank you, sorry, I am not used to small venues'. End of conversation, beginning of brilliant concert. I came across her at a rather lonely time in my life, just after I had resigned from the Bolshevik Party and was a bit worried that someone would sink an ice pick in the back of MY head. Enough of this verbal diarrhoea, love to all Trotsky.
Nice Dory anecdote, Trotters. Thanks for that. I'm going to start with A Stone For Bessie Smith, methinks. x
Yeh, great choice, Janis Joplin eh, another musical tragedy, but what a performer. love from the old trot x
Yes, Janis indeed. There was something in the water in late sixties San Francisco for sure. I wish they'd put it in Worthing's resevoirs.
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