Fastened Bulbous - Hey (released version)

This song is available on WiMP and Spotify.

In an earlier post, I mentioned that Fastened Bulbous had a prior name, but couldn't recall what it was. I have since then looked through my archive of old cover- and poster sketches, and I found the sleeve we used for the democassette that was mentioned in that post. As it turns out, the first name was Thirty Seconds. Like the name Fastened Bulbous, this is a reference to a mutual favorite musician/band, namely Pere Ubu, who's debutsingle from 1976 had a song called 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (also, a film made in 1944 is named that). Evidently, there was also a skate-/hardcorepunk band around in the mid-90s using the same reference ..

I suppose everybody know the reference of the name Fastened Bulbous?

We tried to find a logo for Thirty Seconds. First, we coaxed bassist PG into coming up with suggestions for a hand designed logo. The last of these attempts , which is only a few of the many that he made, was actually used for the cassette. Later, friend and artist Asle Nyborg suggested a few logoes (one of which can be seen here), but by the time we were ready to release some new music, we had changed our name...

Although we recorded five songs for our demo, the released version only had three songs, and Hey was not one of them. Part of the reason for this was probably that we had not yet decided to drop the rather strenuous and quite frankly annoying extra guitar inbetween the verses. At least as I recall it, we all thought that the song became much better without it. But who were we to judge? Listen to the song(s), and judge for yourself - which is the better version? (there's also a few other minor differences)