Sometime in the past, I think I mentioned having borrowed a short musical phrase from a nondescript 1990s love song which I used in Dai Sakusen! and Freshmen 4 Ever. Dai Sakusen came first, of course -- I started work on it as an experiment after I heard the nondescript song on the radio at a Chinese restaurant. Now, by "nondescript", I guess I mean "unknown". That is, I had been looking for its title since I heard it back in 1996 (I was 8 years old at the time).
Well, thanks to 21st-century music recognition technology (namely SoundHound for Android), I was finally able to discover the song's title at the grocery store the other week.
Perhaps you're familiar with the 1996 Donna Lewis album, Now in a Minute. The song is track #3: "I Love You Always Forever".
Now that I know what it is, I can cover it. SPUDS is an all-inclusive cover band, rather like Devo themselves -- covering folk tunes, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Nine Inch Nails, and all that, and all that. Not to say they're a cover band, but you get the idea, yeah?
Anyway, I think this song could go very easily into a techno or dream-trance application. Fortunately, it's not terribly complex and I've already got most of what I can remember of it solidly placed on the keyboard. I don't know if I'll keep the lyrics or not... they're not unisex like Devo lyrics, so I would need a female guest vocallist in the band... which brings up another issue that isn't worth mentioning here. Anyway, we'll see how it goes, eh?
Until next time...
