Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

Tom recorded the original version of this song in 1988 when he got his first 4-track recorder. It was re-recorded a number of times over the years as technology evolved to do something new with it. Finally, now in 2007, this definitive version appears at TheSongOfTheDay.com.

The song got its name from a guitar sound in the original versions that reminded Tom of the sound that a CTA train used to make in the underground tunnels. Now that the CTA trains crawl at a snail's pace, they no longer make that sound. Neither does this version of the song, but the name has stuck...

One of the first Beatnik Turtle Twittersongs, this one was inspired by a Twitter post from Mur Lafferty. She had posted this tweet: "kitchen clean, fridge cleaned out. WHY do I keep saving food?" That prompted us to look into our fridge where we spotted several species of scary substances.

This song was inspired by an idea from Dana while working on the website and Tom realized into a song within a week. We then used the golden throat of the Beatnik Turtle's bass trombone player as our announcer since he does professional voice-over work. (He cut us a break on his rates!)*

*Well, actually he didn't.

We recently created this theme for the podcast, Buffy: Between The Lines. If you're a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you HAVE to check out this podcast to find out what happened that summer between seasons five and six! Listen now at buffybetweenthelines.com.

Mmmmm...beer...and hey, speaking of beer, this song was totally inspired by beer enthusiast and podcaster, Charlie The Beer Guy, who's popular Speaking Of Beer podcast explores the Beeriverse each month. If you're into beer, pour yourself a cold one and check out his podcast! Mmmm...beer...

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Ah, the annoying little things your loved one does...

This song may or may not be based on actual events. Any connection to real persons, places, or 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salons is probably coincidental...

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.

This song, of course, refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that 2007 is not a leap year, and while we considered delaying entire The Song of the Day project until 2008 so this song could fall on 2-29, we just decided to release it on February 28.

We are aware that the existence of an intercalary day in a leap year originated under the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III in 239 B.C. and it was Aloysius Lilius who proposed the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s - not Gregory. We just found "Gregory" much more singable.

Some people are just in the way sometimes. This song is for them.