My memory continues to slide - I gotta do this.
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WHITE - I think it started out on a really plain night. Everyone's busy with something except me, so I just idled. A particularly sticky riff stuck to me, and I decided to just do it for kicks. It's straightforward enough I think - word for word, just express this yeah. Oh, scream alot.
NIGHT ENDS - this was the start of a different approach. Wrote this when the Team broke, and focused on a lot of past and present. No future mentioned I think. Should be expressed as it was originally written for. Can try the chorus melody, but I think the current one's good. Recorded Wayne at AMX, one of the last 2 songs to be done there. I think he didn't really want to do this one though. Ha!
FINE - Wayne play the original tune on the electric initiall, I wrote the chorus first. Supposed to be "love me", not "love him". Recorded only the next day when we were drenched out with wine. Re-wrote a big part of it on the second day - I think I transformed myself into a 12 year old to do this one. "That Orphan Song" is what Rina calls it. I think it's a no brainer, though it should be a fun sort of thing. The claps came last before the vocals I think. Hey, it's toned down cos Wayne's loops were too darn slow. Not my fault. Percussive loops courtesy Wayne.
WHAT ABOUT US? - real old. Josh and I conceptualised this based on the handicapped era. MTV was short, so I don't think we wanna touch this. Consider re-recording the vocals though to see if we can get it right this time. Kinda sleepy.
G - this one's definitely when we were all high. Wayne played this, I played along, wrote something, Josh added something, ChunWai added something, then it was done. Vocals cannot be re-recorded, except for a couple of phrases. Feel's lost. Fixed and done deal. Or, remix the last bit with the electric. Unbalanced.
Darn...I'm getting sleepy.
WITH ME - Josh composed this quite a while back, but he never did finish it and hated it in fact. I tried to sing something the first time round, though nothing was written. That was also when we were high. Second round I finally sat down to find the tune and words for it. First piece to actually picturesque a situation of woman who lost her man. But I think I like it more gay. I fucking hate taboos. Also a consolation for myself for not being appreciated in a big way I think. Seriously lost track. Nonetheless, it's done. Too many strange progressions from Josh, but he produced the vocals nonetheless.
In case you are wondering, I'm actually typing this while running through all the tracks from start to end.
LADY - written pre-Wild Night. Josh composed this and I think it's got something to do with Mindie~ and Shinie~. About all that love shit. Female perspective, and now that I've finally recalled, its supposed to be done smooth and gentle, that's why the toned down expression. Second part is my own perspective. It's just very bent again. Gotta redo the vocals word for word. It's too complicated. Can't take this through chunk break downs.
DID - written post-Wild Night. I needed a lift. Seeing myself immortalised in that stupid doco was really aching and fulled out. I felt like puking. Something to just lift me up when I fall down. Please, redo the damned voice and harmonica. yeah, don't lengthen it. Nobody bothers.
WILD NIGHT - what can I say. Wayne was going through the roughest patch, I was about to leave the country. Last one to be done at AMX. This is my groove, and this is Wayne's tune. I remember he was most drunk as I have ever seen him. I was cringing with hunger but his feel just took over. I remember being knocked out for the next few days cos of gastricis from the hunger. Recorded till past midnight and only managed to grab a bite after. I think it's supposed to be a sad song.
NEW LIFE - I hated this song cos it cannot be finished. I don't intend to now. I don't think it made the cut into "I" also. I can't redo the vocals anymore, till I can remember why I had it written and sung this way. Best to copycat the original feel. Oh, all of us still regret giving this to Edwin's film. If I have one thing to say about that, "fuck you req". There's no need to cry, when there's no more feelings, what hurt you and I, was when we said goodbye. What love could not try, is take away the feelings, what wrecked you and I, was you and I.
REMBRANT - definitely instrument now the way I see it. I can't fucking finish this also. Might as well just leave it to its death. Oh, especially written for HRC DVD only, just thought it's too good to pass over.
I think that's about all I can remember now. If this helps, most of the vocals should come out munching. :wink:
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