CVG (Gate Crashers Suck) (NSFW)

August 18, 2009 9:45 AM

Won't you join us on a small journey?

Chorus lyrics/Chord progression are borrowed/lifted from the Keller Williams song "Gate Crashers Suck."

This was a lot of fun to record, though I'm not sure man vs sun had so much fun slaving over the guitar part (fortunately, all three chords were within the 5 or so that he knows).

Initially inspired by a hellish couple of days experienced by our dear Pheatherwäit last week, MvS showed that, apparently, Delta stands for "Doesn't ever leave the airport," and CVG stands for "I'm a lying sack of crap."

Recorded in a single day in the course of about 6 hours in our new rehearsal space (MvS's new apartment), this grew--a lot--from how I originally worked it out. At first, it was just the intro, mando, and the choir, then we added the second verse, and suddenly there was an eroding guitar pick, the smell of burnt plastic, sax wailing, clapping...I don't even know how I came to be here, anymore. For as big as this is, I'm surprised that it's still all acoustic--no synth, no effects (other than a bit of post-production reverb), none of my usual things--just lots and lots of the two of us.

Instrumentation:

Timbill (me): Lead Vox, Harmony Vox, Choir, Mandolin, Claps
Tréteque (man vs sun): Arhythmic Hype Man, Second Lead Vox, Guitar, Soprano Sax, Claps

posted by askmeaboutLOOM (4 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

Lyrics:

VERSE 1

This snippet of someone else's song (Keller Williams)
Is dedicated to our dear Pheatherwäit (Melissa Burcham),
And for anyone else who's been stranded (I don't know your names)
Who's been sitting in a hotel in Kentucky (ugh)
Because of some incompetent pricks (oh, come on!)
With Delta Airlines (I thought they loved to fly...)(Oh, it shows)
And CVG Airport (worse than EWR)
Here's to their complete failure at life:

CHORUS

{Listen for yourself}

VERSE 2:

Cincinnati?
CVG?
Northern Kentucky International Airport?
Pick a side or go home!

I had a connecting flight through your awful establishment coming home from Boston, one time.
I had food poisoning from the night before.
Those bastards cancelled all of the remaining flights due to frozen tundra advancing onto the tarmac--
After all the restaurants had already closed and all the hotels were full--
So the CVG dickbags rolled out the cots for us to sleep on in the vacant terminal.

When you land there, the cunts on the flight deck welcome you to Cincinnati, Ohio.
It wasn't until much, much later, I found out that I was actually sleeping in a different state than the one I was welcomed to!

So, CVG Airport, you can eat a dick for not being in the same state as the city you claim to service!

CHORUS (Timbill)

CHOIR (CHORUS AD INFINITUM)

CODA:

Fuck you, Delta Airlines,
And fuck you, Northern Kentuck-cinnati--
CVG, whatever the hell you are.
See if I, or any of my friends ever--EVER--fly with either of you, ever again.
We'll spread the word, bitches.

You didn't break a guitar,
But you sure pissed me right the hell off.

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 9:48 AM on August 18, 2009


Gimme a ticket muthafuckers - I'm on board. Love the acapella (sp?) bit in the middle - it's musically spot-on and the contrast with the...er..."lyric" is well past cool. Job's a good 'un, as we say in Blighty.
posted by MajorDundee at 1:30 PM on August 19, 2009


Thanks very much, Major. The contrast of the very clean, crisp, acoustic sound in contrast to the rather harsh lyrics is exactly what I hoped to accomplish. If it was just a typical, angry, distorted, harsh song along with the lyrics, or if it had happier lyrics to go with the musical style, it would've been pretty boring, I think.
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 2:11 PM on August 19, 2009


Aw, man, I had a friend not too far from CVG and flew out of there a few times. I mean its a red-state airport so you've got to suffer the "Fox News Newstand," Chick-fil-a, smoking rooms and all that but hey, not a bad time altogether for a bitsy airport.

On the whole I'd rather be in Kentucky than Ohio though, so whatevs...
posted by Ogre Lawless at 4:14 PM on June 10, 2015


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