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Over the years, I have focused on making music for serious purposes. Every now and then, as Crazy T, Caucoffin, and AES illustrate, I have had some diversionary fun making humorous music with friends. The very few comedy-oriented recordings I have made that didn't fit in these three groups were recorded at various times over the years without any project in mind.
General Notes Select a track for more information
Over the years, I have focused on making music for serious purposes. Every now and then, as Crazy T, Caucoffin, and AES illustrate, I have had some diversionary fun making humorous music with friends. The very few comedy-oriented recordings I have made that didn't fit in these three groups were recorded at various times over the years without any project in mind.
Being (2006) Lyrics by Lindsay McPhail. Music by Alex Wroten.
Alex Wroten, vocals. Zoë Lentz, vocals.
Lindsay McPhail wrote these lyrics in 1997 to be turned into a Price Tag song. They were full of fourth- and fifth-grade grammatical errors. When I was looking through various Price Tag-related documents for an article on my website in 2006, I found these lyrics amongst them. In December 2006, I visited my sister Zoë in Portland, Oregon, for Christmas. For fun one day, we decided to record a completely a capella version of this song, complete with its original errors. We had a blast doing it, which is evident in the recording. To be fair, we could have picked anything I had written at the time and had just as much fun, but we picked Lindsay's lyrics because they spoke to us at the time.
Redneck Rappers 1 (1999) Lyrics by Alex Wroten and Zoë Wroten. Music by Alex Wroten.
Alex Wroten, computer and vocals.
Zoë and I were working on a short film called Haggis that had two redneck rappers, Busta Dwayne and Busta Dwight, as villains. We never finished the film, but I recorded the two raps we wrote for them. It's interesting to note that although I don't listen to rap, both Tapeworm (fetish) and Kirk Mannican's Liberty Mug had rappers as supporting characters. This unfinished project was just the first manifestation of this latent psychological need. This first rap establishes the villain's intentions to mess with the main characters, Bob, Edmond, and Craig. They both named their stomachs Busta Gut, and they have a burping ending. It is far too ridiculous to be counted as a segment from a film soundtrack.
Redneck Rappers 2 (1999) Lyrics by Alex Wroten and Zoë Wroten. Music by Alex Wroten.
Alex Wroten, computer and vocals.
Zoë and I were working on a short film called Haggis that had two redneck rappers, Busta Dwayne and Busta Dwight, as villains. We never finished the film, but I recorded the two raps we wrote for them. It's interesting to note that although I don't listen to rap, both Tapeworm (fetish) and Kirk Mannican's Liberty Mug had rappers as supporting characters. This unfinished project was just the first manifestation of this latent psychological need. In this expositionary second rap, the villains rap about themselves. The structure is exactly the same as the first one.
Alex Wroten, guitars, bass guitar, drums, and vocals. Joe Worthen, vocals.
At the same time we were recording Crazy T's I've Been Alive Since the Dawn of Time, Chamillionaire's song Ridin' Dirty was quite popular. We took a break from the Crazy T project for one afternoon and decided to record our own emo/hard rock version of the Chamillionaire hit. In many ways, this is more of a cover song than a parody, but our treatment of it and our intentions were definitely aimed at humor instead of seriousness. I tried to be as true as possible to the original music despite its hard rock attitude. Joe did a great job singing the lyrics in such a whiny fashion.
One day, my friends Robert White and Nic LaVance were both in my room arguing over trifle things. While they were ignoring me, I wrote this short loop-based piece as a joke and continued to build it until they were done. Robert was a bit annoyed at the computer voice that I put on it, but he was sort of vain to begin with. I really love the many layers that add on by the end.