This is one of the tracks from the eponymous suite of songs off my 2012 effort 'Baklawa Doom', one of the first songs I did to use 24-track, albeit with a 1" TASCAM machine. It was hard to choose between this and Part 2. Ideally I'd have done both, but I wanted to keep at two songs per album, and I already had my eye on 'Song of Keaton' as the closing track.
This version uses electric bass instead of the JV1010 from the original song. Starting from Baklawa Doom, I used a workflow where I'd record the vocals on my trusty old 8-track machine, and then transfer them to the 24-track master tape. This reduced wear on the more expensive machine (and the other tracks on the master). When it came to rerecording the song, I was able to fly in the vocals from the original 1/2" session tape rather than using the second-generation copy on the 1" master tape.
I have rerecorded the 1950s-style chorus at the end of the song, because it never quite sounded as good as the one at the start of the song, and I also changed the words 'Giant acid face' to 'Giant smiley face' because this apparently caused a lot of confusion to people who missed the Acid House rave culture of the late 80s and early 90s.
lyrics
Baklawa Doom Part 3 (from ‘Baklawa Doom’, 2012)
Let's cut to Nanchester, where the end of the world is nigh
Reports are...
a giant smiley face...
Descending from the sky…
The Face floated around, cruising over town
And all who saw its Withering Smile fell dead
I called the old man up and I asked him for a clue
He said it was our hero's job to work out what to do
I sighed and said to Bob we didn't have a plan
Belatedly I wondered why I'd come to trust this crazy mad old man
Bob was the only man that the Face could do no harm
Its smile just gave him headaches but not one of us was armed
I called Bob back into this hiding-place I'd found
It was a chip shop and the deep-fat fryer still seemed to be sound
Hey old man, why is doom so near? Tell me just what it is you fear?
“His friends all call him 'Tim' but to his foes he is Baklawa Doom!”
Bob threw a fish, in polystyrene dish
It struck the Face which broke and we were saved.
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