Friday, December 4, 2020

Megumi Introduced Us to a New Friend of Hers--Some 16 Year Old Girl With Blue Hair Named Miku

 


Megumi met this girl--a kid, really--I mean, she's only 16 years old. Her name is Hatsune Miku. She loves to sing, so Megumi invited her over to one of our band practices. She's a nice kid, has kind of a quirky voice, and she has very long blue hair tied up in pigtails. My first thought was, "What the...??"

Well, long story short, we wrote a song and Miku is singing it. What a crazy world, eh?

Thursday, October 29, 2020

I'm the Girl Who Crapped in Your Car (old song revisited)

 



Hi, All!

Hope everyone is doing well. Hang in there! Who knows how long this will last. Keep wearing your masks, keep your distance from people, and wash your hands! Just make it a habit, you know? Here in Asia, wearing masks is quite normal. Why do some countries freak out about it so much?

Anyway, Gumi wanted to sing an old Anomie Train song, but she had to re-write it to sing it. And no, Gumi never crapped in anybody's car! Gumi also added a bridge section to the song and worked in a diminished chord in there. We also did a fade-out, which is something we normally don't do. Remember when most songs faded out?

Monday, May 4, 2020

New Song - I've Seen the Worst in You (Gumi)

Hey, everybody! I hope you all are hanging in there. It's a strange time, for sure. You know, in school, you learn about wars, The Great Depression, and going way, way back, The Black Death--but you never think about living through a period where people will learn about the things you lived through in a future history class. You just live through it, just like all those people lived through World War II.

Anyway, me and Yasuko are hunkered down while Megumi is busy writing in her home. I mean, she's been really busy. We've been passing files back and forth over the Internet since we can't be together in one space.

We've just wrapped up Megumi's latest song, I've Seen the Worst in You. She wanted kind of a shoegazy sound to it, so we added a bunch of reverb and delays, and Megumi added a really heavy guitar on the track. Megumi also had her friends Ken and Kaori sing a bit of background vocals on it along with Yasuko.





I've Seen the Worst in You

I've been rejected for a long time
social distance is a daily practice of mine
If you want, I can drive your guests away
I do it every day

All I have to do is show up
then watch the roaches leave everything in the dust

Over there is a fat kid getting bullied
I don't care 'cause that fat boy stole my lunch money
It never pays to try and do a good deed
This is advice you should heed

I stop caring so long ago
I just do my best and try to keep the status quo

I've seen the worst in you
You can't hide what will always come through
You like to claim it will be great again
Fat chance! We've reached the end

Who the hell is hoarding all the toilet paper?
Pretty sad that it's coming down to neighbor vs. neighbor
I'm not surprised--but know this
I won't lose to a piece of shit

I stop caring so long ago
I just do my best and try to keep the status quo

I've seen the worst in you
You can't hide what will always come through
You like to claim it will be great again
Fat chance! We've reached the end  (x3)

I've seen the worst
It's not getting any better
I've seen the worst
It's not-
It's not-
It's not getting better