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LINER NOTES FROM SOMEWHERE UP SHIT CREEK - DECEMBER 12, 2009


I've always really liked playing and recording music and back in 2006 I decided
to record ten whole music albums in five years and I've pretty much kept to schedule,
having recorded six decent albums as of this past Spring 2009...blah blah blah

And I've just begun album seven, which is called "JESUS A GO-GO"
and I've finished most of the music tracks for it...but somewhere during
the recording I got a little twitchy and buggy and felt I needed to record
some other sort of vague music just to clear the decks and to disperse
some proverbial musical cobwebs. So, my friend Robert and I meet
every week to shoot the breeze and Robert likes music, especially
oldies of the 60s and 70s and I decided to ask him to make a list
of his top ten favorite songs - well, ten songs turned into a big
fifty-nine songs and so throughout the month of November
off and on I recorded every single song on my friend
Robert's list. I like most of the songs on his list,
however I don't like a lot of them and some
I'm not familiar with at all and almost hate.

Since there are fifty-nine (59) songs on Robert's big song list
and since I didn't want to spend months recording the songs
I decided to do everything in one take. Most of the tracks have
between four and seven separate multi-tracks, featuring
nice guitars, tambourine, electronic keyboard, pen tapping,
the sound of fists thumping desks, the rattle of book shelves
and other heavily over-delayed and reverbed instruments.

I tried to make the music as hard to decipher as possible
but I don't think I've actually succeeded. Melodies and lyrics
are still recognizable in many cases, even through loud
banging percussion and incessant twangs persist.

Also, I'm slightly disappointed in myself for not taking these particular
cover versions "further" - but after a month of hearing my own caterwauling
semi-attempts at non-music I had to give up and quit. The only editing done
was at the start and end of each pathetic track, where noise and count-ins
were deleted or where tracks were faded in or out . But who gives a fuck?

Let's kick it all off with a Bachman Turner Overdrive classic! - BENBENEK


Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet mp3

All Summer Long mp3

And When I Die mp3

Andy Griffith Theme mp3

Arizona mp3

Ballroom Blitz mp3

Battle of New Orleans mp3

Blue Moon mp3

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl mp3

Burning Love mp3

Cecilia mp3

Come Go with Me mp3

Daydream mp3

Der Kommisar mp3

Different Drum mp3

El Paso mp3

Fortunate Son mp3

Funky Town mp3

Get Off My Cloud mp3

Gimme Just a Little More Time mp3

Hang Fire mp3

Hang On Sloopy mp3

Heaven's On Fire mp3

Higher Ground mp3

Hot Fun in the Summertime mp3

House of the Rising Sun mp3

Indian Reservation mp3

King of the Road mp3

Kodachrome mp3

Lady Madonna mp3

Like a Rolling Stone mp3

Little Darlin' mp3

Little Green Bag mp3

Lookin' Out My Back Door mp3

Love Grows mp3

Love Potion #9 mp3

Mexican Radio mp3

Midnight Confessions mp3

My Generation mp3

My Love mp3

Nowhere Man mp3

Radar Love mp3

Runaround Sue mp3

Shambala mp3

Shout mp3

Smoke On The Water mp3

Sunshine Of Your Love mp3

Suspicious Minds mp3

Take My Breath Away mp3

Tears of a Clown mp3

The Joker mp3

Things We Said Today mp3

Vehicle mp3

Venus mp3

Wedding Bell Blues mp3

Werewolves of London mp3

What Is Life  mp3

Why Do Fools Fall In Love  mp3

Without You mp3


Songwriting details and original performer stats
to be added soon if time and desire permits

Recorded at Houseplant Studio #4 - Long Beach, CA
November through December 2009 by Kurt Benbenek

HPWP - 6.5



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