Softcocks - She, Me & He

This song is available on WiMP and Spotify.

I start this week with a follow-up from last week's last post. This song was my contribution to those 8-track recordings. Except from one song (Nasal Sex), my songs were brought into the band at a stage where they still were quite unfinished. For most part, they needed finalizing of both arrangement / chord-progression and melody. Usually, we never got around to finish them. Partly because I was very undecided about how I wanted them to sound like (new ideas every week) and partly because the sketches didn't show much promise (even after weeks of new ideas).

Unlike the song posted last week, this is not a favorite from those sessions, and maybe it should have been left behind like so many of the other songs of mine. Although we had worked on it to some degree in rehearsals, it was finalized through the recording process (quite similar to how my songs on the last two Fastened Bulbous EPs was created, something that I'll return to in a later post). Of course, once the drums were recorded the overall arrangement was more or less set, but we experimented a lot with guitar lines and guitar sounds / noise, and also the melody before we settled on what can be heard here. From what it sounded like when we started recording it, it turned out quite OK.

The lyrics are really quite silly, and were carried over from one of those discarded songs (maybe a snippet of the "melody" on the verse also). I never put much effort into the lyrics and consider them a necessary evil when wanting to have vocals in a song. Except for Robyn Hitchcock, nobody should try to write funny lyrics. Least of all I. This song's proof of that.

This version is taken from a cassette downmix, so the sound quality is a bit muddier than the previous song, which was digitalized directly from the 8-track source, and then remixed.