Boom Chicky Boom

Here's a peppy little number that goes out to all you fine folks out there in MetaFilterland. Instruments in use (in order of appearance!) are mouthbow, talking drum, bamboo rattle, scraper, bass drum, pitchpipe, little bell, and ukulele.

This is another song from my upcoming release. It's been upcoming for a while now, but it's coming more and more up all the time. I'm looking at releasing it May or June. It'll be a 2-CD set, called Got From Gone.

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posted by flapjax at midnite (16 comments total)

Oops, forgot the lyrics. Here they are:

BOOM CHICKY BOOM

how dark is the sky / how deep is the hill
if the thunder don't get you
then the avalanche will
your sister looks good
your mother looks better
go buy me a stamp
so i can send her a letter

boom boom boom chicky chicky boom boom boom

as mean as they come as mean as they go
some of these crazy motherfuckers
they'll cut off your toe
so listen to me we're staying at grandma's tonight
she may be old
but she won't run from a fight

boom boom boom chicky chicky boom boom boom

see that fellow over yonder
just behind the pepper shaker
as sure as you're born
he'll introduce you to your maker
there's a ladybug crawling
on the edge of his knife
he'll put that bug through your neck
if you even glance at his wife

boom boom boom chicky chicky boom boom boom

now friends i steer clear of danger
well anyway at least i try
i've always just said no to drugs
that is the ones that wouldn't get me high
i'm not the worlds most popular fellow
but on occasion i've been known to draw a crowd
i might think stupid or impure thoughts
but you'll very rarely hear me thinking them out loud

Copyright 2008 Samm Bennett / Directional Music
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:04 PM on March 15, 2008

Yeah! Boom Boom, Chicky Chicky!

Or as it's known here in India: Bum Chicky Chicky Bum!!!

(flap--you are a one man band, my man!)
posted by hadjiboy at 1:56 AM on March 16, 2008

"your sister looks good / your mother looks better"

Ah ha ha, that's awesome.

The mouthbow / talking drum combo is really great. I like that repetitive primitive techno-dance groove.

Oh, I wish you wouldn't swear! tsk tsk tsk
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 2:02 AM on March 16, 2008

There's a sound that I can't figure out which instrument makes it .It first comes in at 0:38, but there's a little bunch of instruments that come in at the same time. I guess it's gotta be the pitchpipe, it's kinda played in syncopation.

i've always just said no to drugs

Hmmm, I was thinking, then you sang "that is the ones that wouldn't get me high" and I thought, oh, right. Cool lyrics, I also like the closing lines a lot.
posted by micayetoca at 9:33 AM on March 16, 2008

And hadjiboy, that link is great. You and I should correspond about music, I'm sure there's stuff from this side of the world you'd be interested in, and there's definitely a lot of music from your side of the world that I like.
posted by micayetoca at 9:36 AM on March 16, 2008

Wow, that was pretty wild. I liked the ukulele a lot. I have no idea what this song is about.
posted by Corduroy at 10:51 AM on March 16, 2008

That is just rad as hell.
posted by uncleozzy at 2:03 PM on March 16, 2008

I thought this was going to be a reference to this FPP. (No, I didn't, really.) I like this.
posted by not_on_display at 2:45 PM on March 16, 2008

My kids came home from school with a new joke the other day.

Who are the sexiest animals on the barn yard? BrownChicken BrownCow! Sung as boom chicka boom boom?

This song kicks ass and I wish I could get my mouth harp thingy to sound like that! Kudos!
posted by snsranch at 5:38 PM on March 17, 2008

very very nice, flapjax. i really respect a percussionist who's also a musician. when that happens, it's a sound to behold. and you are a sound to behold.

take all that, add a poet.

day um.
posted by stubby phillips at 3:13 PM on March 19, 2008

Thanks, stubby, and all others, for your impressions. Much obliged to all!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:05 PM on March 19, 2008

oh, that was fucking awesome.
posted by roombythelake at 10:19 PM on March 30, 2008

Oh, that's it. I'm taking a talking bow and a bunch of perc instruments on the boat with me next time we go and scraping up some players for something to do during the dull times. This song will be my recruiting poster.

Awesome. It makes me hear a didgeridoo in my head, too.
posted by ctmf at 1:57 PM on April 2, 2008

...makes me hear a didgeridoo in my head...

This is good. It's all about the overtones, y'all!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:02 AM on April 3, 2008

This is great - Thanks!
posted by Staggering Jack at 1:21 PM on April 5, 2008

there's a ladybug crawling
on the edge of his knife
he'll put that bug through your neck
if you even glance at his wife

Oh hell yeah.

You're a singular talent flapjax. It would almost be worth moving to Japan to hang out at your house on Saturday night.
posted by Ynoxas at 11:36 PM on April 30, 2008