Some of the songs I wrote by myself and some I wrote with my friends. I decided I was going to be a rock star named Danny Rayfield and I was going to hit the big time at the age of 16 in 1989. My breakthrough LP was going to be called Nuclear War.
I recorded 5 songs in my bedroom by playing the 45 on the Hi Fi and singing over it. I covered an album I hated (some Glenn Frey crap LP) in a white sticker, neatly copied the lyrics on the sleeve and planned on drawing an awesome cover. Unfortunately, I never got around to drawing that cover but I'm glad that I have the lyrics. I have the cassette of my recordings somewhere but I have not been able to find them.
The songs:
Ghost in My House to the tune of Somebody's Watching Me.
Nuclear War to the tune of Ghostbusters.
Phones Aren't Good Anymore to the tune of Obscene Phone Caller.
The (Losing) Campaign Song to the tune of Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.
Chow it Down to the tune of Cool It Now.
The song about Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign has references to things that I have no memory of. Apparently they told jokes about the Marx Brothers? Click on picture to enlarge.
I've got to find these recordings!
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9 comments:
I hope to hell you fine those gems. If they're half as good as your old "Couples" recordings, you've got yourself a solid gold hit.
© 1987 makes you not 11.
jeremy, i don't even know where the couples recordings are. didn't i put some on one of your mid 90s mix tapes?
shr,
i was definitely 11. i was pretending that the album was coming out when i was 16 so i made up the years that the songs were written.
This is probably my favorite of your posts. I _love_ the nostalgia.
I don't know how the Mondale song would have fared in a post-Dukakis landscape in '89, but I think it would do swell right about now. Get ye to a recording studio pronto.
i'm just glad they're copyrighted because now that they're out in the world, some savvy superstar would for sure steal them. nice thinking, danny.
This is literally the coolest thing I have ever heard.
I just don't know what to say.
noiseboy,
i had the exact same thought about the mondale song not being relevant by 89. but danny rayfield would have been such a big star that people wouldn't have cared.
decaf,
that didn't even occur to me. you are right. good thinking by me.
shivery,
you wouldn't be saying that if you had actually heard these recordings.
mondale,
i knew you'd love this.
I really love the lyrics to Nuclear War. Especially "Let me tell you something: I didn't get blown away." And the part about going upstairs.
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