Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

Goodbye, goodbye, and goodbye.

This is a strange, alternate version of a song off The Cheapass Album. The one on the album completely rocks out in a Cars-like way. This one, uh, doesn't.

Since the site launched, this has been the song that appears when you get a "404 Error." But don't panic - this isn't a real 404 Error. At least, we don't think it is...this time.

Most of Beatnik Turtle has some form of ADD and - HEY, look, a monkey!

This is another one we wrote and recorded in February and so became part of our Record Production Month album, "All In A Day's Work."

Jason's Mom still uses an Apple IIe and prints to a dot matrix Imagewriter II at her home office. The home office is just a room away from the studio and we couldn't resist the urge to mic the old machines and add them into the song.

Because so many of us work in office settings, we tend to write about it. Today's song got a whole new remix for The Song of the Day, has been played live at several Beatnik Turtle shows, and appears on the Live Album with lots of horns set to a Mozambique beat. Watch for a full re-recording on a future Beatnik Turtle album!

This song is dedicated to Joe Murphy who lost his battle with cancer on 4/1/07. About eight weeks before this, our friend Mur Lafferty wrote in and asked if we could write a song about Joe's super spy alter ego, Mason Rocket. We did and since we recorded it during February, it became part of our Record Production Month album, All In A Day's Work

Joe Murphy was a podcaster, a writer, and a dear friend to many people. There's a memorial fund that Joe's friends created on his behalf. Donations are appreciated.

Someone wrote our website and suggested we write a song called "Batshit Insanity." So we did.

There's always two sleeves to every shirt.

The Casiotone: perhaps the greatest instrument ever invented.