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Oddball
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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
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Rock • Progressive Rock
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Peak #36
Peak in subgenre #8
Author
Steve Smith
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Steve Smith
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August 10, 2018
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MP3 7.4 MB • 160 kbps • 6:26
Story behind the song
This is quite a newly recorded tune. I wasn't going to put it up on SC just yet but then Clicker's Club announced a "left field" player for August and this was too good a fit to pass, both in subject matter and the proggy construction. For those nerdy enough to be interested this is one time signature all the way through - 21/8 - which is amazing fun. You can split it up so many ways (including 5+5+5+6 and 7+7+7 as it says here). Once again kids don't try dancing to this unless you are a centipede you will definitely strain something
Lyrics
People say I'm different Say I don't fit in The name they use is oddball Though I'm half even I reckon the world in numbers Just to keep it from unthreading 5 and 5 and 5 and 6 is 7 and 7 and 7 They say it's a skill they value Like they would for any machine But where's the valued hand of friendship, eh? Nowhere to be seen But I hurt like anyone else And I bleed like anyone else Would you give this oddball the love I need Like anyone else? Why can't you be like the rest of us? That's how they usually start Failure to assimilate is seen As setting myself apart Oh look at Billy-No-Mates They laugh behind my back no doubt Well we're all on the spectrum somewhere It's just that some of us Haven't quite worked that out But I hurt like anyone else And I bleed like anyone else Would you give this oddball the love I need Like anyone else? So I'll stick to my oddball hobbies It's safer on my own If this is social interaction I'm better off alone Alone
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MikeBennett
Oct 09, 2020
Wow, this is another massive sounding song that you've gone all out and that time signature is Zappaesque cool!!!!
rodrica
Oct 05, 2020
I remember this one...brilliant lyrics that make a great point. Excellent arrangement and performance, very impressive track
MichaelDuran
Oct 04, 2020
Still a favorite mate!
DRUMNJON
Aug 25, 2018
OH MAN , JUST LOVIN YOUR STYLE SETH!! A ROCKIN GREAT TIME!!! CHEERS~~
MikeBennett
Aug 24, 2018
Stunning!!!
TimLowe
Aug 22, 2018
Most excellent. I can't count past four, but I can appreciate those who can. Digging the guitar/drums/lyrics etc and the great arrangement. Sounds totally great. Stupendous.
d.bill
Aug 12, 2018
FANTASTIC. Dig the time sig. Dig the gritty energy of the mix with that hard-driven saturation feel. Dig the organ and the hollow mono-synth (and that section of bouncing interplay). And of course I dig the performance, vocal and 6 string excellence. Nothing odd about liking this.
MichaelDuran
Aug 11, 2018
Spot on BRILLIANT in conception & execution Steve, this is so solid and quirky that it exemplifies & defies oddity in one stroke!