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#157-Curmudgeon (1996)
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Mid period rocker
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Genre
Rock Rock General
Charts
Peak #498
Peak in subgenre #100
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1996
Uploaded
June 09, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:32
Story behind the song
This is my first rocker since the early 90's. I was in some sort of strange mood when I wrote it. I'm not usually thought of as a curmudgeon. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.5 out of 5.0...Comments included: "I really liked the feel of this melody...this song could really rock with soaring screaming higher registers...Rating 4" "Nice rock number" "Great idea....but I had to look up the word "Wet blanket or party pooper" Maybe the first line should be changed to i'm an old wet blanket just a smudge of the curmudgeon ...I used to be" "I like it. A 4. May need some variation added to it. I like the fuzzy guitar." "Nice lyrics on Curmudgeon-just a smidgen of what I used to be --not an easy word to rhyme. Fine solo."
Lyrics
I’m becoming a curmudgeon just a smudge of the very one I used to be I’m inside of a chilled dungeon of my choosing what is real and what to feel When I hear love here I’m just shruggin no turning can race away the spoked wheel Sticking out of the cream oven a dessert has deserted me before the meal When trying to reach maturity The interest lies behind the fall When banking for some security Behind the armored wall There’s worse things than a curmudgeon I don’t bludgeon I don’t take away the soul But curmudgeons are too stubborn to see the present wrapped in future’s chain-linked bows I’m becoming a curmudgeon just a smidgeon of the one I used to be
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