Thursday, December 04, 2003
Someone's Gotta Do It Now, Vivian
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, and Big Jon(?)
Music: Henry
Henry wrote some comments on this song but some of it's wrong. We were watching a British comedy show about some punks and houligans that lived together in this flat and there was a rat that they found and this one guy with a crazy mohawk was named Vivian and they all decided that he had to catch the rat and put it in the toaster, or something like that. He didn't wanna do it, but they said, "Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian." And a song was born. Henry's comments about Isaac Kramnick and our coffee table are right on. The third verse is different everytime it's sung - usually Henry just makes it up on the spot. Back in college it almost always included a reference to Gabe and Beverly Hills, 90210. Those were the days.
Lyrics:
Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian
Someone's gotta raise it up, someone's gotta lay it down
Isaac Kramnick's got one horse fever
Isaac Kramnick stuck in this Saturday Night town
Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian
Someone's gotta jump up, someone's gotta toast the rat
Isaac Kramnick's got a little bit of this, now
Isaac Kramnick's got a little bit of that
Chorus:
If I told you once I told you a thousand times before
You better get those legs back on the table
A hundred million bottles washed up on the shore
I'll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able
(3rd verse)
Chorus
Extra Stu: This is the first song I ever put drums on. I like it, but I have to admit, I'm getting better. This song also goes down in history because it's the one original song we used to play that caused people in the audience to ask, "Who wrote that one?" They didn't mean was it me, Henry, or Jonas - they thought it was a cover. They obviously weren't listening to the words. I like the recorded version, but I miss the lyrics about Gabe making us tape 90210 for him because he had class on Wednesday nights. And finally, about the stolen lyrics - the Beatles and the Police were actually common sources of many of our stolen lyrics including Ms. Gradenko (occassionally in Caveboy), The End (in the Gigantic Disgusting Monster), and Sgt. Pepper (stolen music in the beginning of Pierre, just after Paradise City). Also, this is one of many songs where we mistakenly sung the words out of order and then kept doing it because it was Stupider that way. Here "one horse town" and "Saturday Night Fever" became "one horse fever" and "saturday night town." In Down South, "don't forget to bring clean underware" and "I don't wanna know what goes on down there" become "I don't wanna bring clean underware" and "don't forget to know what goes on down there." We're Stupid.
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, and Big Jon(?)
Music: Henry
Henry wrote some comments on this song but some of it's wrong. We were watching a British comedy show about some punks and houligans that lived together in this flat and there was a rat that they found and this one guy with a crazy mohawk was named Vivian and they all decided that he had to catch the rat and put it in the toaster, or something like that. He didn't wanna do it, but they said, "Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian." And a song was born. Henry's comments about Isaac Kramnick and our coffee table are right on. The third verse is different everytime it's sung - usually Henry just makes it up on the spot. Back in college it almost always included a reference to Gabe and Beverly Hills, 90210. Those were the days.
Lyrics:
Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian
Someone's gotta raise it up, someone's gotta lay it down
Isaac Kramnick's got one horse fever
Isaac Kramnick stuck in this Saturday Night town
Someone's gotta do it now, Vivian
Someone's gotta jump up, someone's gotta toast the rat
Isaac Kramnick's got a little bit of this, now
Isaac Kramnick's got a little bit of that
Chorus:
If I told you once I told you a thousand times before
You better get those legs back on the table
A hundred million bottles washed up on the shore
I'll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able
(3rd verse)
Chorus
Extra Stu: This is the first song I ever put drums on. I like it, but I have to admit, I'm getting better. This song also goes down in history because it's the one original song we used to play that caused people in the audience to ask, "Who wrote that one?" They didn't mean was it me, Henry, or Jonas - they thought it was a cover. They obviously weren't listening to the words. I like the recorded version, but I miss the lyrics about Gabe making us tape 90210 for him because he had class on Wednesday nights. And finally, about the stolen lyrics - the Beatles and the Police were actually common sources of many of our stolen lyrics including Ms. Gradenko (occassionally in Caveboy), The End (in the Gigantic Disgusting Monster), and Sgt. Pepper (stolen music in the beginning of Pierre, just after Paradise City). Also, this is one of many songs where we mistakenly sung the words out of order and then kept doing it because it was Stupider that way. Here "one horse town" and "Saturday Night Fever" became "one horse fever" and "saturday night town." In Down South, "don't forget to bring clean underware" and "I don't wanna know what goes on down there" become "I don't wanna bring clean underware" and "don't forget to know what goes on down there." We're Stupid.
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