Oh, heavenly gosh, this is the album I've been working on for almost a year. Here it is in its entirety, with all the songs in the proper order. I'm writing which characters in this wacky rock-opera thingy sing each song, so maybe you'll have a good idear of what's going on in the story. In any event, I'll get back to posting new stuff next week, but I thought it would be good to have this entire album here in one place for your listening enjoyment. Woohoo.
In short, this album's based on the movie, Skins. [Spoiler Alert!!!!] It's about this teenage or early-20s dude, Corky Red Tail, who gets murdered. He wants to get a message to his mom that he's okay in the spirit world. He at first tries to get Rudy the cop; Rudy's brother, Mogie; and Mogie's best friend, Verdell to get the message to his mom, but it doesn't work. After Mogie and Verdell die of events related to their suffering from alcoholism, they join Corky in the spirit world, where they all work together to get Rudy to get the message to Corky's mom that he's okay. (Rudy ends up throwing a bucket of paint on the bust of George Washington at Rushmore, which makes George look like he's crying, and that ends up being the sign that Corky's mom needs in order to know he's okay. That's cuz it looks like a drawing Corky did in a notebook of George Washington crying, from when he was a kid (see above).)
See, much of the stuff in this here album actually does happen in the movie. I wanted to make a behind-the-scenes back-story thingamagigger involving Corky cuz I was curious as to what happened to him in the spirit world. Now I know. Thank God it had a happy ending.
NOHEDINT
Corky sings most of the song, but Rudy is the guy sayin' "no as a matter of fact, he did not" and the dude askin' about trouble makers is Rudy's boss. Corky's singing about how he'd love to live in a place where cats sing and people smoke lots of pot. Little does he know he's gonna end up there soon (the spirit world, in other words.)
Corky sings this song. It's about how he likes working at the supermarket.
Corky sings this song. It's about how it sucks to be murdered.When Corky gets to the spirit world, he's bummed out that he didn't get to sing his death song before he died because it happened so suddenly and unexpectedly. But then the spirits tell him he can go ahead and sing it, anyway. Then he does.
Corky realizes he needs to get a message to his mom that he's okay. This medicine man-dude is the talking-dude in the samples. He's tellin' Rudy that maybe Iktomi the Trickster Spider entered his brain and that's why Rudy feels out of sorts (see below).
LOOKSELF
Rudy and the medicine man sing this song. Rudy feels not-himself; unbeknownst to him, it's cuz Corky's trying to communicate with him, and that's making his thought processes feel all funky and messed up.
Rudy and the medicine man sing this song. Rudy feels not-himself; unbeknownst to him, it's cuz Corky's trying to communicate with him, and that's making his thought processes feel all funky and messed up.
In this song, Corky is trying to communicate to this drunk guy, Verdell, who sez "whatja stop by for?" Corky's trying to take advantage of Verdell's altered state of consciousness in order to communicate. It doesn't work.
GHOSTOFC
Rudy finds the 2 guys who killed Corky and gets revenge by bashing their knees with a baseball bat. Rudy's the one who sez "I'm the ghost of Murdered Corky." Meanwhile, Corky's freaking out cuz he's scared he influenced Rudy to do that.
Rudy finds the 2 guys who killed Corky and gets revenge by bashing their knees with a baseball bat. Rudy's the one who sez "I'm the ghost of Murdered Corky." Meanwhile, Corky's freaking out cuz he's scared he influenced Rudy to do that.
Verdell ends up dying and going to the spirit world, where he meets up with Corky. In this song, Verdell is telling Corky about how alcoholism screwed up his life.
Then Verdell comes up with a plan to get Corky's message to his mom. He says they can get Mogie to do it, because he's a joker; and graffiti-ing George Washington to make him look like he's crying would be right up his alley.
RUSHMORE
But when Mogie gets the message, he misinterprets it as blowing up George Washington instead of painting him.
But when Mogie gets the message, he misinterprets it as blowing up George Washington instead of painting him.
Then Mogie dies, and Verdell and Mogie sing about how much fun they can have in the spirit world (Corky joins in with them).
Corky visits Rudy in a dream; Rudy is confused until Corky tells him it's a dream and spirits can visit people in dreams. They proceed to smoke pot.
Mogie, Verdell, and Corky try to prepare Rudy for the message they're about to give him.
Mogie re-iterates the importance of making George Washington look like he's crying.
STUPID03
Rudy gets the message from the 3 of them and realizes what it is (telling him to vandalize George to make him look like he's crying). But he thinks it's a stupid idea. The three of them tell him to do it anyway.
Rudy gets the message from the 3 of them and realizes what it is (telling him to vandalize George to make him look like he's crying). But he thinks it's a stupid idea. The three of them tell him to do it anyway.
Rudy finally decides to do the deed; Verdell and Mogie are flabbergasted that Rudy, the straight-laced cop-guy, is gonna do something illegal by vandalizing George. Corky throws in his death song, for good measure.
Rudy's singing about how he threw that fucking can of paint. He did it. Woohoo.
Corky, Verdell, and Rudy are all happy and relieved that they succeeded (along with Rudy) in getting the message to Corky's mom that he's okay.
NICEDAY4
Now they're singing about how they can go and have fun. It's a re-statement of the theme of the first song, just to tie things together.
Alrighty, then. Next week, I'll post some new stuff. Yesiree.
Now they're singing about how they can go and have fun. It's a re-statement of the theme of the first song, just to tie things together.
Alrighty, then. Next week, I'll post some new stuff. Yesiree.
