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Head Above Ground
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A song about itself. Gawky in a sunny '60s kind of way. The utter opposite of "Freedom Fried."
indie solo
This is just my own solo stuff. I do this crap mostly for my own amusement and/or as songwriting/production/arranging exercises. I don't how to categorize myself since I'm liable to try absolutely anything that catches my fancy, from indie-punk to '70s TV theme spoofs to ambient atmospherics. It's all here for you to enjoy, and if you're not careful you might get a headache before it's done, hey hey hey.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative • Indie
Charts
Peak #101
Peak in subgenre #31
Author
Bill Spiropoulos
Rights
©2004 Bill Spiropoulos
Uploaded
May 18, 2005
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MP3 2.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I came up with the basic music one day when I was goofing around on the guitar. Much later, I just felt like recording a demo of it, for no particular reason. I ad-libbed the title phrase, and then completely improvised the rest of the lyrics on the spot while I was recording, something I seem to be pretty good at. The first thing to occur to me to sing about was the fact that I was singing as well as playing all the instruments on the backing track ("voice and bass and guitar and drums/I'm playing everything"), and that no one else was in the room ("you're not making a sound, you're not hanging around"). Well hell, the mumbled vocals aside I think my improv shtick worked pretty well. The song as a whole has a kind of late '60s sunshine-pop vibe that shows off me in a considerably better mood than I was in when I made "Freedom Fried". Nice contrast between the simple guitar strumming and vocal line, and the highly syncopated bass and drums. All recorded on my Tascam again, this time plugged directly into my Mac for mixing, thus the relatively pristine sound. Notice the global repeat echo over the the indivually reverbed tracks.
Lyrics
Head above the ground I'm not making a sound You're not hanging around It's just what I'm doing now Voice and bass and guitar and drums I'm playing everything Voice and drums and guitar and bass I'm playing everything in my space Head above the ground You're not making a sound You're not hanging around I'm just your musican Voice and bass and drums and guitar In my space I'm a rock 'n roll star Improvising, memorizing Words out of nowhere You're not hanging around Please don't make a sound I'm going towards the ground I know what I'm doing now Amplifier, keyboard sounds You're not hanging around town I'm playing for you tonight So don't think that the words are right
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