Re: تحميل نغمة I Feel Good
Sofie Kovalcheck
BABIES ALL OVER THE WORLD
I combined two very old rough drafts of the same song together to make this one. I think I wrote both versions in the late 1980s. Originally it was called "People All Over The World" but I changed it to "babies" because I am all about the little ones! I hope kids will listen to the song and imagine all the people all over the world and how everybody's doing something at every moment. I love the baritone saxophone in this one!
I AM A LOOSE BALLOON
The Presidents had a song called LOOSE BALLOON that I wrote but I wasn't really happy with how it came out. I didn't feel like it captured what I thought of and felt when I would see a balloon floating by itself across the sky. My brother Tim helped me out a lot with writing lyrics and focusing the feel of this song. We came up with the idea of that lonesome rambler narrative like Roger Miller's KING OF THE ROAD. Once we figured out that perspective the song sort of wrote itself.
SUNNY SUMMER SUN
The lyrics to this song took a million years to figure out. It started out being about a family of bears in a river then changed many times before ending up being about staying cool in the summer sun. I loved the music so much that I stuck with it and now I love it! Maybe this song will help when the kids get grumpy at the beach?
OLD COOKIE
This one also started out as a fragment from along time ago. This is another song that came out of my frequent habit of looking at something small and weird and giving in an inner life. I saw part of a stale cookie on the sidewalk one day and imagined it's whole story. I wanted this one to kind of sound like a lost Bob Dylan song if Bob Dylan ever sang about old cookies.
SUPERSONIC MOTORCYCLES
One of my neighbors has a big loud motorcycle and in the summertime he turns it on in his backyard and it always scares me! When I am out in the world and walking by the seaside and someone comes blasting by on a motorcycle with no muffler it scares me! Basically I am scared of those loud motorcycles and thought I would write a song about it that does not tell them to stop but just lets everyone know how I feel. I went out and bought a special distortion pedal to get a special fuzzy guitar tone for this one.
AWESOME BLOSSOM
There is a busted up old guitar on the wall of a little restaurant on Vashon called Pure and one day after a walk in the woods during the best part of Spring I went there to eat and while my food was being prepared I wrote this song on the old guitar about how bursty the world is in spring. I am also singing about how a child grows and shines like an awesome blossom.
SPOOKY BABY
When my son was little he would register protest with me and his mom by lowering his chin and raising his eyes and looking at us intensely and saying "spooky baby...." in a low scary voice. It was so cute that it quickly became I catchphrase around the house. I did a demo of the song way back then almost 20 years ago and finally got around to recording it now.
TOY BOAT
I wrote this one a couple of years ago but it was called CHEETAH and was basically just about how fast the cheetah is. It never felt really right so I stripped the lyrics away and came up with this idea the tongue twister toy boat thing. So it's sort of a song about trying to say toy boat and it's also the song about my toy boat that you will get if you can say toy boat over and over again.
PUT THIS MONKEY TO BED
When I was a little kid I used to put on the Beatles song EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT FOR ME AND MY MONKEY at full volume and run around the house refusing to take my bath. I guess I wrote this song from the parent's perspective a little bit. You know when a child is excited and crazy and we'll get ready for bed. Maybe if you parents out there singing this song to your crazy child in the evening it will help you wrangle them into the nighttime routine.
INVISIBLE LIZARD
This started out as a Dukes O' Pop song called LITTLE LIZARD. The only words were "MY LITTLE LIZARD!" shouted as loudly as possible! I noticed that it was common for me to meet little baby fans at shows and they would suddenly go all shy right when they approached me. So I thought it would be good for those shy kids to have a little anthem. Now I call them "invisible lizards" and pretend that they are changing color to disappear when they feel shy.
LOVE YOU MORE
I wrote this for my daughter Josephine when she was little. I didn't think I could love my kids and more every day but it seems like that's what happened! I just wanted to bottle that feeling of trying to take a mental snapshot of every moment when my kids were little so that I would never forget those times. Kind of like a mouse in that book "Frederick" about the mouse who absorbs summertime in the form of poetry and then when the other mice are cold in the winter he reminds them what it's like to feel warm.
WHAT IF?
This one came to me about 10 years ago when I was writing for the second album but it never got recorded until just recently. It got lost in the cracks and it was like finding a shinny penny when I uncovered it again. As parents we all have to answer those "why" questions that can go on forever and ever. I thought it would be fun to make the kids questions impossible situations to illustrate how weird and random the world can seem to a kid.
TWO IS ONE MORE THAN ONE
I left a voice mail message for a friend named Robyn Hitchcock and sang my message as a song and that is how this one started out. I kept a recording of it for years and finally turned it into this song. I had a great time making all the voices of the animals I am trying to call in this song. We all know that animals have phones right? I am pretending they do!
SOUR SWEETHEART
I took the music for this one from a super old song called MANKY MIMI that I think was released on a funny old cassette I did back in the 1990s. This is another case of loving the music but not loving the lyrics to the original and trying new ones. Sometimes kids get that crazy sensory overload thing where they can't control their emotions. Underneath it all is your sweet kid but for now the sour one is louder.
WEIRD WEIRD DREAM
I used to give away custom songs for auctions and fundraisers and this one started out that way. A kid gave me a series of dreams and I chopped them up and put them to music. I would credit that kid here but I don't remember who it was. Eventually I wrote all new lyrics with my own "dreams" in there and made it an official Caspar song.
CAR WITH THE LIGHTS LEFT ON
One dark fall night I went to the supermarket and there was an empty car with its lights on sitting there in the rain. It just made me sad to think that the car was patiently waiting for the owner to return and might run down its battery before that happened. I still can see that poor car in the dark rain all alone. I decided not to resolve the story but just leave the car in the state of forever waiting.
THE BALLAD OF THE BABYPANTS
Oh my goodness, this one was a long long long journey. This is the true story of the actual Babypants that are part of my name. I really did find them and they really did spark creativity in me after a long blank period where I could not write and I really did loose them. Have you seen them? This started off as a slower song but I redid it to bring a little more energy to the groove. I love how it came out and if you find those babypants let me know!
CATERPILLAR JAZZ
I was on Vashon Island at our house in the summertime just sitting in the garden taking in the vibrant buzz of a hot summer day when I thought I could hear caterpillars playing jazz. At least I pretended that I could and this song came flowing out. It is important to stop and just let the energy of the world flood into your being every once in a while. If you do you will be treated to a symphony of tiny grooves.
WHEN I WAS LITTLE
This one is very much from the perspective of a grown up remembering the beauty of being a child. It was originally on a cassette I made with some friends back in 1987 called The Dukes Of Pop. I was listening to old songs one day and thought this one would make a good Caspar song. I tried a few different ways to approach the lyrics and rewrote it many times but basically ended up using the original lyrics with the addition of a couple of verses. I loved my childhood in the 1970s and this is a love song for those times.
SNOWY BLANKET
The Christmas record WINTER TIME! I put out a couple of years ago was supposed to have this song on it but it just was not finished at the time so it had to sit that one out and wait for this record to see the light of day. I just wanted to capture that amazing feeling of looking out at fresh snowfall when I was a kid and feeling like the whole world had been replaced by a smooth frozen white world.
FIVE WHITE DUCKS
Long long ago when my second record MORE PLEASE! was coming together I wrote a song called SIX WHITE GEESE about a bunch of geese that go wandering out and get plucked up one by one by various evil forces. It was a bit of an attempt to write something in the vein of the old Grimm's Fairy Tales. Those old poems are pretty dark but I just couldn't make the song work lyrically or musically after much trying so I shelved it. Also Weird Al's daughter Nina said it was TOO scary! I brought it back out and made the geese into ducks and had them joining each other rather than being plucked up and made the music more rocking and the song came back to life!