{"id":1313,"date":"2019-07-03T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlecomets.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2019-07-03T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:55:17","slug":"three-minute-faltz-lyric-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlecomets.com\/three-minute-faltz-lyric-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Faltz Lyric Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
Listen while you read? Stream it now – http:\/\/Smarturl.it\/3MinuteFaltz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I might explode when we play this live. It\u2019s as close to the sound you\u2019d get if you plugged my brain into a system that translated thoughts into music as you can get. I\u2019d had this idea ages ago of doing an updated version of \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire\u201d but when I read into it I discovered that the song wasn\u2019t the lyrical anti-bucket list I assumed \u2013 it was from a conversation Billy Joel had with someone who basically said nothing had happened in the last fifty years so Billy went through every year of his life and catalogued the major cultural and political events \u2013 total genius\u2026 but I shelved the idea because it therefore didn\u2019t fit in with my original interpretation of the song\u2026. Either way it must have festered for a while and re-emerged in the form of Three Minute Faltz..<\/p>\n I remember writing this one with Mickey in the garage early Autumn last year (I\u2019ve got the original voice memo phone recording if anyone wants a laugh)\u2026 but it is interesting to listen to the first iteration of the song \u2013 it came together in about 20 minutes and was full of beans \u2013 I felt lifted singing it and it became one of those songs where I couldn\u2019t wait to solidify the lyrics \u2013 I had so much to cram in\u2026 it was intentionally like a stream of angry consciousness because let\u2019s be honest when you list all the stuff that is wrong with the current human world you realise that we are completely ferked\u2026. So you might as well pore the beauty left into something creative\u2026<\/p>\n The lyrics were quite quick by my usual standards as I had certain lines to hang on and build off \u2013 toxic masculinity is now a fragrance on aisle three\u2026 whales have eaten all the plastic\u2026 duty to the screen in your hand eventually will destroy ya\u2026 so it was just\u00a0\u00a0case of filling in the gaps with things that piss me off \u2013 some seriously, some massively, some personally, some in a totally omnipresent sense.. it\u2019s like a passioned rant.. but one which if you look into the detail hopefully you can see that it is actually quite nuanced. Headlines in papers by nature are almost poetic as they have to encapsulate a story in under a sentence, but if you alter the words a little then you can have real fun and make a point. I suppose every line in this song is like that \u2013 it could be a headline in some sort of paper.<\/p>\n Recording wise this one wasn\u2019t too tough although \u2013 as usual \u2013 we got a bit of demoitis\u2026 we spent a day recording it and it sounded great but far too rough in a playing sense\u2026 I had played the drums using only my hands on Mickey\u2019s son\u2019s drum kit so although it had good vibe the timing was a little suspicious\u2026 but there were lots of elements to love \u2013 we didn\u2019t use a click so the tempo had a really natural flow to it (I wish the finished recording was more like the demo in that sense) and all the production parts \u2013 backing vocals, piano, percussion \u2013 worked instantly\u2026 it\u2019s just a shame we didn\u2019t spend a little more time on the demo as it would have been the final recording. Going forward that\u2019s something to look at haha\u2026<\/p>\n But yeah, all in all we are pretty happy with it \u2013 it\u2019s a fairly good summation of what we feel as people at the moment, which is always a good starting point for a\u00a0\u00a0Little Comets song.<\/p>\n