Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

A year ago at this time, Randy, Jason, Ryan, and Tom were at a podcaster party at Dragon*Con. On the balcony, we met Chris Miller (whose podcast can be found here) what he does for a living and the reply was "I turn caffeine into code." Luckily, guitars were close at hand and this song was off to a fast start!

Beatnik Turtle's here to remind you that it's hard gangbangin' and to be careful out there. Guest rapper, BustaPoon, appears courtesy Deafness Records. The song also features the smooth drum blips of Casio's SK-1.

This song was based on the original demo lyrics to Under The Radar - a song that debuted January 4, 2007 here at TheSongOfTheDay.com. Dugan O'Keene took the original lyrics and took it in an entirely different and cool direction.

John Lisiecki wrote this great tune for and WITH his 2 year old son.

The song Finnegan's Wake is believed to have been composed in the mid 1800s and served as the basis for the James Joyce novel of the same title. This week's song is our rendition of Finnegan's Wake which we recorded as part of our RPM Challenge 2008 album, Sham Rock.

Just TRY to unravel the lyrics to this one!

Daaaaave. Come out, come out, wherever you are.

As a songwriting exercise, John Lisiecki occasionally only allows himself an hour to come up with a song. This one came out of one of those sessions.

One of Tom's long standing technology rules has been: "Be careful what you put into a computer because you never know where it will come out." Many bloggers get themselves into trouble violating this rule....

This song is from our forthcoming album, ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. (The pre-release of the album is already available at iTunes, and the CD's will be available in September.

Featuring the great Qadree Holmes on vocals, this song goes out to all Notary Publics everywhere.

This song came about when Jason was asked to notarize a few immigration documents for two recently married friends of his - one of whom was applying for U.S. citizenship. When they asked Jason whether he could notarize their signatures "to prove it wasn't a sham marriage," he informed them they were in luck - he wasn't only a Notary, he was the "Love Notary."

They laughed a bit at his comment until they realized Jason was serious about the concept making "a great song for The Song Of The Day" and found themselves stranded in his office with unnotarized papers in hand.