Comments on: Boom Chicky Boom

Boom Chicky Boom

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:51:34 -0800

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.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:04:32 -0800

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

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:56:17 -0800

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!)

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:02:29 -0800

"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

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:33:15 -0800

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.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:36:09 -0800

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.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:51:27 -0800

Wow, that was pretty wild. I liked the ukulele a lot. I have no idea what this song is about.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:03:04 -0800

That is just rad as hell.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:45:37 -0800

I thought this was going to be a reference to this FPP. (No, I didn't, really.) I like this.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:38:51 -0800

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!

By: stubby phillips

stubby phillips — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:13:21 -0800

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.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:05:03 -0800

Thanks, stubby, and all others, for your impressions. Much obliged to all!

By: roombythelake

roombythelake — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:19:30 -0800

oh, that was fucking awesome.

By: ctmf

ctmf — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:32 -0800

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.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:02:23 -0800

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

This is good. It's all about the overtones, y'all!

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:21:12 -0800

This is great - Thanks!

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:36:29 -0800

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.