Beatnik Turtle's Encore Song of the Day

We had to go to our closets and get out our spandex to record this song right.

Why are there so few honest love songs?

This is the expanded version of a song written for Matt's Sci-Fry sketch comedy show at Second City.

This is a paired song, as we have a Mrs. Right Now that will be played on another day!

This was song dates back to 1989 when Tom wrote it for a composition class. He dusted off the tape, digitized it, added new stuff, and shined it all up for The Song Of The Day.

This is just a throwaway song.

"Hot Lava Death," said the guy from Hasbro.

This was quite a memorable moment in the history of the now-defunct GeekSpeak/BoardGameSpeak podcast. When we made a tribute podcast in memory of Derk and Aldie's show, we created this song using bits of the podcast interview with the guys.

This one was created when Ted emailed for directions to the studio. Being Ted, instead of just asking for directions, he wrote them in lyric form.

Once Ted made it to the studio that day, Jason and he set the email lyrics to music. But not just any music - they wanted to write the "the strangest, weirdest music ever." Once they got done, they realized all they did was write a lost Flaming Lips tune that could have fell off The Soft Bulletin. Matt, who was working the mixing board and who had never heard of the Flaming Lips (!), kept asking Jason if he "really wanted to sing it that way."

To this day, when Ted says "Hi, my name is Ted," he has to bite his tongue to keep himself from saying, "...and this is my song about ants."

Our friend Holmes! came into the studio with this gem. He laid down the initial scratch guitar, sang, and left. Tom took up the challenge of overseeing the development of it and within a few weeks, built up the guitar parts, got John to play drums, and Tom to add bass.