I am happy to announce that the new, long awaited TenGooz tracks are now
available on-line at Jamendo.
Let me tell you first about the first track. Well, like most of our latest songs, this one began which a Hase G (Nodoka Hasegawa) bass riff that we all liked.It was one of the batch we had come up with just after we came back from our second Australian tour.
I is, as usual for a G-riff, very funky. I decided to make the song about drowning in a flood of information, because that is what I have been experincing more and more as we head on into the age of computers and the internet.
Lyrically, I then decided to explore other ways that the expression-Too Much Information can be used in English.
To tell the truth,however, I was very slow coming up with the full lyrics and while at gigs and rehearsals the guys had worked out the great arrangemnets and solos that you can now hear. The full text was only finished in the studio while we were recording.
Here are the lyrics-
Too Much Information
Ive got books and magazines piled high up to the ceiling
but Im ordering some more with their covers so appealling
Got 900 channels Im surfing through on my sattellite TV
There are sites in cyberspace tell ya how to build a rocket
got a set o` `cyclopedias that fit inside my pocket
I spend half the day just clearing spam from my email inbox tray
Somebody help cause there`s too much information round me
Feels like Im gonna drown
My mind is frayed by all this overstimulation I say
We`ve got to simplify down!
Got an on-line cd store carries 20 million titles
I just ordered me some grunge and some classical recitals
It would take two years just to hear the disks that
Ive got up in my room
Besides the journalists now weve got the blogger minions
Ive been staying up all night scrolling through all their opinions
but there is just so much the human mind is able to consume
Somebody help cause there`s too much information round me
Feels like Im gonna drown
My mind is frayed by all this overstimulation I say
Weve got to simplify down!
Whatever happened to the ancient arts of conversation
now it`s talk of body functions and bedroom revelations
Everyones airing their dirty laundry out for the whole wide world to see
And the scientists explain all the chemical reactions that make us love and hate
give us fear and satisfaction
now weve got cold equations stead of WONDEROUS MYSTERY
Somebody help cause there`s too much information round me
Feels like Im gonna drown
My mind is frayed by all this overstimulation I say
Weve got to simplify down!
Avi Landau 2009
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