Shortly followed by some demo recording. I have three songs ready to record and plenty of other bits that are slowly solidifying into full pieces.
A couple of the finished tracks came out of jams in my little post-Walken metal project Batomeac from 2005 which stalled when the band attempted to get back together. I plan on keeping the name, I think it's suits the kind music it is (mostly metal and hard-rock). Besides, it Googles well.
My current mission for Batomeac is to record an EP (at home) and distribute it for free. I have no plans for gigs and it's unlikely I'd put myself through that kind of stress. We'll see. Maybe I'll miss lugging my amp around.
The songs don't have lyrics. The aim is for the songs to be instrumentals, but I am toying with the idea of opening up the demoed songs to lyricists and other at-home musicians. We'll see.
I'm also toying with the idea of blogging the song writing process, possibly posting demos. I may chicken out on that.
I may chicken out on the whole thing.
Yesterday I listened to "The Very Best of 10cc", purely because I've decided to work through them in alphabetical order.
All I knew of 10cc was I'm Not In Love and the only reason I knew that song was by 10cc was because Mike Patton sang a small bit of it once in one of his bands and so I've seen it in writing often enough to remember. Update: Thanks to Dave I discover my enormous oops. It seems Tori covered I'm Not In Love on Strange Little Girls. It may even be what I'm thinking of and not Mike Patton at all. End Update.
In my head I'm Not In Love is a sappy 80's ballad and thus I expected the band to be sappy 80's ballad writers.
What an incredible shock I got to find out I like them.
To me, they're like a weird cross of Frank Zappa, Dr. Hook (only less rude but just as cynical), the more musically serious side of Ween, elements of Queen (particularly in production) and many other styles.
Ultimately it was the shock of the band not sounding at all like I expected that made me like them. On a re-listen the gloss wore off a little. I was surprised to hear "Rubber Bullets" was one of their songs, an excellent parody in the theme of Jailhouse Rock. The kind of parody song that spawned Faith No More's We Care A Lot. Also Dreadlock Holiday (I don't like reggae) is theirs.
Neither of which are surprising after listening to the overall theme of their music.
What surprised me is that I've never noticed the theme of I'm Not In Love. At first I was surprised this band wrote this song but on listening in the context of the whole CD it falls into place.
The production throughout the album was consistently good. The Wikipedia article on I'm Not In Love hints the band were innovators in the field of song production.
This review does a pretty good job of summing up the CD I listened to from a perspective of someone who was familiar with the band.
They both sound fantastic. I love the cow packaging for the Kit-Kat White. I can't remember a Kit-Kat Dark chocolate version in Australia but I may have missed it when I was younger and my taste for bitter hadn't kicked in yet.
Candyblog will soon be reviewing other Kit Kats including Red Bean!?