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Dhaka-dice
This is not as much a side-project to Fungus (since Fungus IS pretty much my solo project anyway) as it is sort of a test tube where I try out my ideas to see what they sound like with full instrumentation. Most of these songs are written for Fungus and will be played live and maybe even recorded in a real studio some time in the future, so a lot of the songs are really "Fungus" songs that are complete even before the other members have even heard them. You could say they are to demo recordings what regular demo recordings are to professional studio recordings. I also use the pseudonym "Dhaka-dice" when making hip-hop beats. But I'm not sure I can upload all my beats, as some of them contain samples that haven't been altered enough for me to be able to call them my own. Anyways, if you're curios about what I'm doing, feel free to listen.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative • Grunge
Charts
Peak #1,065
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
Tomas Rauhala
Rights
2005
Uploaded
May 15, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:20
Story behind the song
This one was written at a time when I spent a lot of time at school, sitting in a small rehearsal room hammering away at the piano singing and screaming, writing songs while simultaneously trying to improve my singing. I've always hated my voice, but I love singing. Unfortunately, I felt that I wasn't the only one who hated my voice. Plus I've never been very good at a specific instrument. And in a class of musicians, you can get the feeling that you have to be a technical virtuoso to be taken seriously. This was all very discouraging. So I wrote a song about it. The deliberately off melody on the verses and intro was actually created naturally by the slightly detuned piano when I played the bassline (which is the same as the verse riff on Blood Clots, but without syncopation) on the lower keys. I liked the evil, diving sounds I was getting out of the piano and applied them to distorted guitar. The experimentalism of the "one half step to high" and usage of accidentally created sounds (not to mention that it is actually a piano song played on a guitar tuned in 5ths instead of 4ths) is inspired a lot by the Residents I think. The phrase "I am a worm" is directly taken from the remixed version of their already mutated-beyond-regognition version of "We Are The World", which I used to play and sing a lot while sitting by the piano at school.
Lyrics
I can hear it dripping dripping, oozing from their mouths now I can feel it wiggling wiggling, squirming in my bowels now I'm so unsettled can't seem to fulfill your ideals Insignificant genitals if only you know what it felt like I know what they're thinking self-esteem is ever limping Androgynous adolescent and they are all so confident I'm so below you I'd really like to show you something that'd surely blow you away and away and away and away but... I am a worm, to you nobody sees the things I do, for you It feels like no one sees any of the things I do, for me I'm so below you... I'd really like to show you... I'm so below you... I'm so below you...
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