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Philsongs are the direct result of many hours of putting off valuable study time. They were born in the summer of 1994 with the purchase of a Karaoke machine from the mecca of white trash that is Roses. The realization that swapping blank tapes between the two decks could enable a wimpy version of tracking brought about a recording frenzy that to date has netted about 18 90 minute tapes of noise that can be loosely categorized as music. 1996 threw Wil Cunningham's aged Tascam 4 track into the mix, as well as a mixture of pedals, drum machines, and effects racks, courtesy of other friends, some of which are in jail, others of which are in Wilmington, NC. Many are the nights that were spent attached to magnetic media on one side and crappy equipment on the other. The results are, well, unusual. Until mp3's stream well across your average modem, we're going to have to stick to the tried, true, and slightly underwater sounding RealAudio format. Right now, pretty much the entire collection is being recorded by someone in Williamsburg, so I'll have to scrounge for songs around here and there'll be only old stuff up. Look for the online RA collection to grow frighteningly when I get it back... Hehe...I said grow. |
- The Wicked Witch From The West - Witches fly around on brooms. Witches play with cats and frogs. Witches wouldn't have a chance with physics students. - No Sex For Rex - Rob Barnard always said we could call him any name, as long as it started with 'R'. I guess he was asking for this one to happen. - Turtle Action - The dreaded male condition popularized as shrinkage by Seinfeld. Written in early Spring '96 in the Karaoke days (like most all of these for now...). - Study Tex - Dedicated to my China dwelling, English teaching, always studying friend, James Austin Turner. He also has mutton-chop sideburns that rival Florida in size and shape. - Penis Statue - Comes with a friggin' awesome video shot by Steven R. Sweitzer of independent movie fame. When internet speeds catch up to needs, we'll put up a Quicktime movie... - The Phil Pelanne Ramones Song - Um...I recorded this right after seeing a documentary on the Civil War back in '96. Don't ask me... - Moe The Dragon - The real reason dragons don't grace us with their presence these days. - Underwater Music - A 7 minute instrumental inspired by the Ecco The Dolphin Playstation game. I then realized how pathetic it is to be inspired to write a song by a Playstation video game and haven't done an instrumental since. - Twinkie - Born of the challenge that it's impossible to record a four-track song in less than 15 minutes. Thank goodness they didn't stipulate quality! - Keystone Beer - The stuff is disgusting and the last time any crossed my palate was sometime in 1991, but it somehow was immortalized in song and verse. - Don't Know - A song dealing with something that filled Williamburg almost as much as it's gawking tourists - boredom. - Amos The Whale - The rhyming tale of a murderous whale who does some time in the slammer, gets bailed out by some other whale, and marries her. Really heartbreaking when you think about it! - The Non-Fiction Song - Ahh....Rizzoli's. My first section was the non-fiction section, and man, I still get tears whenever I see one. - Touch My Butt, They Call Me The Gros - Talk to my brother about the cryptic reference to the Gros. Or Todd Ginsberg. Or Dain "Eric The Red" Runestad. In any case, dig the feedback! - Dog Named Joe - If I had a dog, it would be a sausage dog, and if I had a sausage dog, his name would be Joe, and if I had joe, I would take him out for beer. - Deathstalker II Theme - The absolute best B Movie EVER! It was so low budget that it had one theme song. They played it for the entire movie! There is a long monk chant at the beginning of this, but I spare you all but the last two lines - believe me, you want it that way. - Beligerant Hobo Reggae Song - Bob was a hobo. He drank the bottle Boones. He voted for Gary Hart. He was damn beligerant. - Bought The Magazine - This song is the direct result of some crappy movie that was playing on Skinimax in '95. - The David Style Song - Dave Style, a man with no roots, enjoys spending his winters holed up in Colorado, skiing and building living structures. It has been said that he is easily controlled, but the TSV will not let him confirm or deny this allegation. - The Steve Sweitzer Cigarette Song - First Steve smoked cigarettes. Then he quit. Then he started back up again after realizing that man cannot live on mints alone. Then he told me that he hates it when people call him Stevie. Alas. - The Sebastian Sassi Song - Sebastian Sassi works for a law firm now, changing the system from within. He is actually a socialist vegetarian headbanger, don't let the job fool you.
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