Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Caveboy
Words: Randy
Music: Randy
I wrote this song during an MCAT review class (hence the first line). I went to class every week, but I wrote songs instead of paying attention. There's really not that much to say about it. It's just StuPid.
Lyrics:
The teacher in front of the room is writing on the board
The kid in back is thinking about the caverns he explored
The snakes and rocks and slimy things that he found on the floor
'Without that cave,' he thought to himself, 'my life is such a bore."
Chorus:
Caveboy - he likes to play in his
Caveboy - his friends all call him a
Brave boy - his friends all call him the
Caveboy - he has a dog, too
Well the cave, that mysterious place, is really very dark
There's a new kid sitting in the front of the room and they all think he's a narc
He came, he came into school, with a billyclub and a jar
And when Jon's dad parked in the handicap zone he put a ticket on his car
Narc boy - he is afraid of the
Dark cave - he never goes in the
Dark cave - so he's not friends with the
Caveboy - he's a loser
Bridge:
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy! Freakboy!
His mom ate the dog...his daddy ate pebbles
Freakboy! Freakboy!
He plays the bass, but his clefs are all trebles
I like the Freakboy - I think he's nice
I like the Freakboy - I'll say it twice
I like the Freakboy - I think he's swell
If you don't like the Freakboy, you can go to Hell
Narcboy and Fatboy, alone at the cave, Narcboy's afraid to go in
Fatboy would love to go inside the cave, but the opening's too thin
Antboy and Poorboy show up at the cave, Antboy chewin' his gum
Antboy just stands up and then yells out "CAVE!"
Cause Antboy's really dumb
The Skinny:
1. Who's car it is parked in the handicap zone varies each time the song is sung.
2. I'm very proud of the fact that 'he plays the bass, but his clefs are all trebles' was Johnny D.'s favorite StuPidwish lyric. (He plays the bass.)
3. Jonas adds various profanities at will to the end of the bridge. It makes it better.
4. "CAVE!"
5. Henry's guitar on this really makes the song. If only his amp went to eleven.
Words: Randy
Music: Randy
I wrote this song during an MCAT review class (hence the first line). I went to class every week, but I wrote songs instead of paying attention. There's really not that much to say about it. It's just StuPid.
Lyrics:
The teacher in front of the room is writing on the board
The kid in back is thinking about the caverns he explored
The snakes and rocks and slimy things that he found on the floor
'Without that cave,' he thought to himself, 'my life is such a bore."
Chorus:
Caveboy - he likes to play in his
Caveboy - his friends all call him a
Brave boy - his friends all call him the
Caveboy - he has a dog, too
Well the cave, that mysterious place, is really very dark
There's a new kid sitting in the front of the room and they all think he's a narc
He came, he came into school, with a billyclub and a jar
And when Jon's dad parked in the handicap zone he put a ticket on his car
Narc boy - he is afraid of the
Dark cave - he never goes in the
Dark cave - so he's not friends with the
Caveboy - he's a loser
Bridge:
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy's comin' so you better watch out
Freakboy! Freakboy!
His mom ate the dog...his daddy ate pebbles
Freakboy! Freakboy!
He plays the bass, but his clefs are all trebles
I like the Freakboy - I think he's nice
I like the Freakboy - I'll say it twice
I like the Freakboy - I think he's swell
If you don't like the Freakboy, you can go to Hell
Narcboy and Fatboy, alone at the cave, Narcboy's afraid to go in
Fatboy would love to go inside the cave, but the opening's too thin
Antboy and Poorboy show up at the cave, Antboy chewin' his gum
Antboy just stands up and then yells out "CAVE!"
Cause Antboy's really dumb
The Skinny:
1. Who's car it is parked in the handicap zone varies each time the song is sung.
2. I'm very proud of the fact that 'he plays the bass, but his clefs are all trebles' was Johnny D.'s favorite StuPidwish lyric. (He plays the bass.)
3. Jonas adds various profanities at will to the end of the bridge. It makes it better.
4. "CAVE!"
5. Henry's guitar on this really makes the song. If only his amp went to eleven.
Phan and the Chicken Man
Words: Jonas, Henry, Randy, and Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry sums it up pretty well on his site. It's another song involving chicken. This is one that I play almost every time I touch a guitar.
Lyrics:
Flips a burger, and gives her a sideways glance
She cooks a chicken in her hairnet and her checkered pants
She cooks some fries...looks in her eyes
But she tries not to stare
The ancient custom, from their home across the sea
Serves as a reminder that their love (their love) could never be
His head is buzzin'...his parents are cousins
And he's a drooling mongoloid
On taco night, they made their plan
To elope (to elope) to a foreign land
But as they toiled, their plan was foiled
By the man in the rolling chair
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man...
The Stupid:
1. The line about the 'drooling mongoloid' comes from Gerber who used that phrase to describe what happens to him when he eats an apple (he's allergic).
2. Some of the pronouns in the first verse should be masculine, but Jonas gets poetic license.
3. Taco night was second only to nugget night as a reason to go up to North Campus for dinner. Really, almost all our songs are about eating in one way or another.
4. The man in the rolling chair was the head of security or something at RPU. He yelled at us one time for taking too many tacos or nuggets or something and so he's the bad guy in the song.
Words: Jonas, Henry, Randy, and Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry sums it up pretty well on his site. It's another song involving chicken. This is one that I play almost every time I touch a guitar.
Lyrics:
Flips a burger, and gives her a sideways glance
She cooks a chicken in her hairnet and her checkered pants
She cooks some fries...looks in her eyes
But she tries not to stare
The ancient custom, from their home across the sea
Serves as a reminder that their love (their love) could never be
His head is buzzin'...his parents are cousins
And he's a drooling mongoloid
On taco night, they made their plan
To elope (to elope) to a foreign land
But as they toiled, their plan was foiled
By the man in the rolling chair
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man
Phan and the Chicken Man...
The Stupid:
1. The line about the 'drooling mongoloid' comes from Gerber who used that phrase to describe what happens to him when he eats an apple (he's allergic).
2. Some of the pronouns in the first verse should be masculine, but Jonas gets poetic license.
3. Taco night was second only to nugget night as a reason to go up to North Campus for dinner. Really, almost all our songs are about eating in one way or another.
4. The man in the rolling chair was the head of security or something at RPU. He yelled at us one time for taking too many tacos or nuggets or something and so he's the bad guy in the song.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Rubber Chicken
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, & Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry doesn't explain this song on his website. I think it's because there's really nothing to explain. We were at some waterfall state park near Ithaca, sitting around being idiots, when suddenly we started talking about a rubber chicken who was running for mayor (or something like that). We were all just throwing out ideas about things this rubber chicken would do (get elected mayor, run a 4 minute mile, go to law school, etc.) and the song pretty much wrote itself. It quickly became our #1 hit single. One day, we were sitting around playing spades and watching Old School Wednesday on Rap City (or maybe it was Legends of the Hidden Temple) when there was a knock on the door and in walk two girls saying, "Can you guys play Rubber Chicken for us?"
Lyrics:
Rubber Chicken was born in 1963
Elected Mayor in '82, and then he set all his chicken friends free
Rubber Chicken, he's educated; spent several years in college
He's a patron of the arts; a real lover of all kinds of knowledge
Chorus:
Rubber Chicken - Beat you in the head with it
Rubber Chicken - Beat you 'till you're dead with it
Rubber Chicken - Don't expect to get fed with it
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken is a man's best friend
Rubber Chicken always wins in the end
Got his pilot's license, when he was only four
Sailed across the Atlantic, and then he opened up some kind of store
Rubber Chicken, he wears a three piece suit; he's got all kinds of money
He don't mind it if you laugh at him, because a chicken in a suit looks kind of funny
Chorus
Bridge:
Well he don't mind if you like to eat lots of nuggets
Or if you're a die-hard poultry lover
He takes no affiliation with his fleshy counterparts
Because a Rubber Chicken, we'll he's made out of rubber
I'm the greatest MC in the world!
Rubber Chicken, he has a law degree, and a very successful practice
One time we tried to run from him, but he and his chicken friends tracked us
Rubber Chicken, he's in good-ass shape; he runs a four minute mile
Was called as an expert witness, in that all fucked-up O.J. Simpson trial
Chorus
Extras:
1. Which trial gets mentioned in the last verse is entirely up to Jonas. It was originally OJ Simpson, later (on the version you can download) the Clara Harris trial, and currently the Kobe Bryant trial.
2. "I'm the greatest MC in the world" is lifted from De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate. It's one of the few instances where you can see our broad range of influences (another is the Blondiesque "man from Mars, eatin' cars"-style rap about Bob Hope in Papal Visit).
3. The lyric "opened up some kind of store" was intended to be temporary until we could think of a sufficiently funny 'kind of store.' We decided it was funniest the way it was.
4. Notice that after getting his pilot's license, he sails across the Atlantic. We're idiots. That wasn't on purpose.
5. Lots of our songs have recurring themes. Chicken nuggets pop up more than anything else (Nugget night, Phan and the Chicken Man, Shitty (which was after a nugget night), and Rubber Chicken, to name a few). Mostly, we just really enjoy writing songs about food coming to life, or animals being people.
6. After the song went Platinum in Ithaca, Daisy got us a real live rubber chicken. It was hollow and had it's mouth open, so we used to fill it with malt liquor and let it regurgitate it back to us. It was great - only slightly less fun than drinking rum out of the decapitated Choco-Bear that Krotch brought us.
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, & Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry doesn't explain this song on his website. I think it's because there's really nothing to explain. We were at some waterfall state park near Ithaca, sitting around being idiots, when suddenly we started talking about a rubber chicken who was running for mayor (or something like that). We were all just throwing out ideas about things this rubber chicken would do (get elected mayor, run a 4 minute mile, go to law school, etc.) and the song pretty much wrote itself. It quickly became our #1 hit single. One day, we were sitting around playing spades and watching Old School Wednesday on Rap City (or maybe it was Legends of the Hidden Temple) when there was a knock on the door and in walk two girls saying, "Can you guys play Rubber Chicken for us?"
Lyrics:
Rubber Chicken was born in 1963
Elected Mayor in '82, and then he set all his chicken friends free
Rubber Chicken, he's educated; spent several years in college
He's a patron of the arts; a real lover of all kinds of knowledge
Chorus:
Rubber Chicken - Beat you in the head with it
Rubber Chicken - Beat you 'till you're dead with it
Rubber Chicken - Don't expect to get fed with it
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken is a man's best friend
Rubber Chicken always wins in the end
Got his pilot's license, when he was only four
Sailed across the Atlantic, and then he opened up some kind of store
Rubber Chicken, he wears a three piece suit; he's got all kinds of money
He don't mind it if you laugh at him, because a chicken in a suit looks kind of funny
Chorus
Bridge:
Well he don't mind if you like to eat lots of nuggets
Or if you're a die-hard poultry lover
He takes no affiliation with his fleshy counterparts
Because a Rubber Chicken, we'll he's made out of rubber
I'm the greatest MC in the world!
Rubber Chicken, he has a law degree, and a very successful practice
One time we tried to run from him, but he and his chicken friends tracked us
Rubber Chicken, he's in good-ass shape; he runs a four minute mile
Was called as an expert witness, in that all fucked-up O.J. Simpson trial
Chorus
Extras:
1. Which trial gets mentioned in the last verse is entirely up to Jonas. It was originally OJ Simpson, later (on the version you can download) the Clara Harris trial, and currently the Kobe Bryant trial.
2. "I'm the greatest MC in the world" is lifted from De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate. It's one of the few instances where you can see our broad range of influences (another is the Blondiesque "man from Mars, eatin' cars"-style rap about Bob Hope in Papal Visit).
3. The lyric "opened up some kind of store" was intended to be temporary until we could think of a sufficiently funny 'kind of store.' We decided it was funniest the way it was.
4. Notice that after getting his pilot's license, he sails across the Atlantic. We're idiots. That wasn't on purpose.
5. Lots of our songs have recurring themes. Chicken nuggets pop up more than anything else (Nugget night, Phan and the Chicken Man, Shitty (which was after a nugget night), and Rubber Chicken, to name a few). Mostly, we just really enjoy writing songs about food coming to life, or animals being people.
6. After the song went Platinum in Ithaca, Daisy got us a real live rubber chicken. It was hollow and had it's mouth open, so we used to fill it with malt liquor and let it regurgitate it back to us. It was great - only slightly less fun than drinking rum out of the decapitated Choco-Bear that Krotch brought us.
