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The variety of songs on a Steam Powered Giraffe album is always interesting. You look back through their history and it’s always this way. They all toss in on the final product but someone with a distinct vision wrote that song to start with. Even Vice Quadrant, which had a unifying theme, showed this.
On Quintessential I keep hearing these little moments that remind me of music I’ve heard in the past. That’s not to say it’s unoriginal but you can hear influences. David sings a part that sounds like the BeeGees (towards the end of Photographic Memories), Bunny has parts of her songs that do the same (twins right) and also does a little lilt of the voice that makes parts of another song sound like something by Paul Simon (Dream Machine), Sam delivers sweet irony by writing songs that sound like something from a solo Beatle in the 70s.
So now thinking about the lore, I figured with at least two of them you could headcanon that they have unpublished songs going back as far as they (the robots) have existed. So all their recent albums have new or redone songs that they actually wrote 100 years ago, or back in the30s, or 50s, or 70s or whenever, and The Spine says to Rabbit, “What about that one you wrote after Paul Simon put out ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’. I always thought that one had something,” and Rabbit says, “You should use that one ya wrote after wa-wa-watchin’ all those Bruce Lee flicks…”
And Hatchworth jumps up and down and yells, “I have three songs that I wrote in the vault and they are ALL TRUE STORIES!!!”
I always thought this. Figuring out the robots repertoire in any given decade is always a little fun for me.
Imagine the first few weeks after Hatchy comes out of the vault (and gets his vocabulary updated) the bots would focus on catching him up with all the music styles he missed as if it’s the most important thing in the world. Social graces? Nah, you don’t need that, Hatchdog… come and listen to Crosby Stills and Nash. And ya g-gotta check out ELO.
The Spine and Rabbit both actively interfering with Walter Worker efforts to acclimate Hatchworth to a new century because he’s gonna be fine. All he needs is the music. And there are just so many albums for him to listen to.
the Wizard of Oz references in sleep evil sleep caught me off guard but I really love them… the thing about the book & the famous movie is that dorthy, scarecrow, tinman, and lion had the things they needed all along, so hopefully rabbit will find that’s true for herself as well
I know this is suppose to be an exclusive to Engineer-eteers, but I needed to share this.
Tonight has been especially hard for my brain. I typed up four different long blog posts to vent the madness. After I wrote each one, I saved it as a draft and thought better of it. There are so many things that go through my head…there are so many blogs I wish I could just share and write and be introspective with.
But tonight I’m simply feeling too vulnerable and too compromised to put my brain through all of that. Enough is enough for one night…I just want to share my mind with you in the only way the words make sense. I want to sleep.
For those wondering, this is a song I wrote for the band about my struggles with depression, anxiety…and anger.
I could never explain what was going on in my head to the band…or to anyone for that matter. I think this is the closest I’ll ever get.
Everybody should listen to this song. Not just the people battling the monsters within [Been there, doing that, working on it in my own weird way] but also the people who want to try and understand what it’s like for those near and dear to them who are battling it.
And maybe the people who dismiss that battle as unimportant should give it a listen, too. Because it’s not about the good day, or linear progress towards a goal of normalcy. It’s coming to terms with the issues, finding workarounds, and still having yet another bad day. And then picking up and going again.
I’m going to work on a scribbly storyboard for this song. My skills do not match what’s in my head, but I just have to communicate the imagery I get when I hear this.
I apologise in advance for my A-frame human figures :P
And thank you, Miss Bennett, for sharing this with all of us.
I’d chop it down to a good Friday project. Yet again, more SPG art! This is actually based off a question “Spine” answered on the Spine Tumblr page, about who fixed the robots up, and his answer was around the lines of “we fix each other,” and I thought that was pretty neat. And I’m sure the Walter Girls would lend a hand too, so, there ya go!
