Big Star - Thirteen
I love this song and the many covers of it I have heard so much.
I just bought a new pickguard for my black telecaster. It is not as cool as this one. Next time. The fact that I’ve been into paisley lately might be trying to say something about me turning into a yuppie.
Significant You - Shit Scared
A demo of a song Anne wrote.
can’t wait to get my jhort couture on this summer, especially now that it’s the new black
Cranford Nix - Cigarettes & Heroine
Cigarettes and Heroin are my only friends
Now I’m in a sanitarium wearing dependz
Done a lot of damage but I feel ok
The Thorazine I take it makes the monsters go away
And my Dr says man if you apply your self here
You’ll be working at McDonald’s in about ten years
Oh yeah? Well alright! You know it sucks in here and it gets so lonely at night
Oh yeah, well alright! You know I’d break out but I’m too weak to fight
Oh yeah, oh yeah, well alright
These therapy sessions they get kinda sad
Some crackhead bitch found out she hates her dad
She never knew why, Oh now its clear
Oh god, please get me the fuck out of here
And my Dr says Cranny man apply your self here
You’ll be working at Burger King in just two years
Oh yeah, well alright! You know it sucks in here its so lonely at night
Oh yeah, well alright! You know I’d break out but I’m too weak to fight
Oh yeah, oh yeah, well alright
These 12 step meetings, they’re kinda fun
We drink coffee, and smoke cigarettes, I wish I had a gun
An hour outside, its like a vacation
It’s like a fucking prison, but we get medication
And my Dr says Cranford man apply your self here
And you’ll be working at McDonald’s in about two years
Oh yeah, well alright! You know it sucks in here and its so lonely at night
Oh yeah, well alright! I’d break out but I’m too weak to fight
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh yeah, oh yeah, well alright I know we suck
I recorded a song that I wrote about seven years ago, and am recording several more. Please respond with feedback if you have the inclination, and pass this around to my friends in case they don’t know about my blawg. Thanks!
The Hold Steady - History Lesson, Pt. II (Minutemen Cover)
This totally rules.
The Minutemen - History Lesson, Pt. II
I transcribed the acoustic version of this song from a documentary about The Minutemen, We Jam Econo: The Story Of The Minutemen. It turns out to be quite a bit simpler than it appears on the band’s record Double Nickels On The Dime. This might have to do with the fact that D. Boon was trying to rip off the riff from “Here She Comes Now” by The Velvet Underground, a band whose arrangements are simpler than they appear, when he wrote this guitar part.
The trickiest part of playing this song is keeping your strum pattern even as the rhythm of the vocal delivery constantly changes, so listen to the song and pay close attention to which words the chord changes line up with. The font on my blog is different than the one I wrote this chart in, so the words and chords don’t match up.
Chords: (EADGBe)
B: x244xxx
F#6: x143xxx
F#: 244xxx
E: 022xxx
G#: 466xxx
Hook: (This comes at the end of each chord phrase in the verses, can be heard as the bass line in the studio recording version on Double Nickels)
E|-0-0-0-|
D|-7—-7-|
G|—-6—-|
B|———-|
e|———-|
Lyrics
B F#6 F# E
Our band could be your life
B F#6 F# E
Real names’d be proof
B F#6 F# E
Me and Mike Watt, we played for years
B F#6 F# E
Punk rock changed our lives
F# E G# B
F# E G# B
B F#6 F# E
We learned punk rock in Hollywood
B F#6 F# E
Drove up from Pedro
B F#6 F# E
We were fucking corn dogs
B F#6 F# E
We’d go drink and pogo
F# E G# B
F# E G# B
B F#6 F# E
Mr. Narrator,
B F#6 F# E
This is Bob Dylan to me
B F#6 F# E
My story could be his songs
B F#6 F# E
I’m his soldier child
F# E G# B
F# E G# B
B F#6 F# E
Our band is scientist rock
B F#6 F# E
But I was E. Bloom, and Richard Hell, Joe Strummer, and
B F#6 F# E
John Doe. Me and Mike Watt, playing the guitar
B F#6 F# E
F# E G# B
F# E G# B
F# E G# B
F# B
I don’t really fault people. Everybody can’t be born at the same time. Some people will be born before, some people born during, some people born after, and a lot of that’s just circumstance. So the question is what is to be done where you’re at, and how are you going to do it?
