Vom Vorton - Silver Streak

from SpinTunes #15 Round 3 by Spintunes

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Since my first couple of SpinTunes songs were guitar-heavy I thought I could probably get away with doing something electronic for this challenge, but as I thought about it I realised that would feel like a cheat, because I do a lot of electronic stuff. I opted to go in a different direction and really stretch myself by going HEAVY, which I have never really done before at all.

I am attempting to emulate South California's legendary stoner-rock band Fu Manchu, and here are some of the elements I have identified and tried to mimic:
* RIFFS
* ultra-fuzz guitar (I listened to two of their albums on loop and heard ZERO seconds of clean guitar)
* cowbell
* lyrics about cars, roads etc (I am singing about my 2004 Toyota Corolla, which I have recently been using a lot more since starting a new job and rejoining the commute)
* choruses that are often the same line repeated over and over

As an example of Fu Manchu's killer rock ways here's the awesome King of the Road: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zko7pBeHkk

lyrics

needed a vehicle at minimal cost to me
knew it had to reach escape velocity

bought it to get from A to B
the occasional trip to the C

considered a new ride
leave the old one for dead
but then I just got it
cleaned instead

clearing the peaks in a silver streak (x4)

manual gearbox / power steering
derbyshire labour; japanese engineering

gets me where I wanna go with time to kill
even though it slows down when it goes uphill

poor thing was neglected
left on the road
now we’re getting back in touch
with the highway code

clearing the peaks in a silver streak (x4)

clearing the peaks in a silver streak (x8)

credits

from SpinTunes #15 Round 3, released December 2, 2018

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