Rebecca Pittenger's Podcast of Weird Songs

It's a mini-songs weekend, yessiree. It's a very short song about bein' careful.

I had a dream this morning that I was listening to Talking Heads '77 and there was this song where David Byrne keeps singing "I'm putting out the fire; I'm starting the fire." I guess it was a song about a dude being indecisive about a fire. I tried to replicate the song (but I don't remember how it went exactly). 

Here's the next song in the fucked up relationship album, part 2. The main character calls her ex-boyfriend. Yessiree. 

I was kickin' around an idea for another song,  but then this one came to me outta the blue, so I went for it. It's about that lost mojo of youth that all us old farts try to get back. We try to get it back and we fail. Poops.

This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 2. It's the one where the main character drinks lots of beer and considers drunk dialing her ex-boyfriend.

This is a song about a happy day I remember...it was actually 25 years ago, but "20 Years" sounds cooler. It was this sunny day and me and my Dartmouth friends were out in the sunshine, drinking beer and smoking pot. It was just lovely. This song is meant to be sorta poignant, as in, here I am, this old fossil, looking back at when I was young and having fun and the future, ever so bright, was ahead o' me. Yes,, indeed.

Here's the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 2. Yeah, the girl continues to wrestle with ambivalence about calling her ex. Yup. Yes-siree. 

Here's the second version of "7 Sundays" that I did today. I wanted to mess around with singing it in a different key, and I changed up the chorus and stuff, too, just for kicks. I think I like this chorus a little bit better, but the downside is it doesn't lead into the bridge as well, so the bridge sounds all dumb and pasted in there, instead of flowing from the chorus. Poopity poop. This version is real sloppy, too, cuz I was just futzing around.

I made 2 attempts at recording this song today; this is the upbeat one. It's a song about going to a land where every day is Sunday. It's like, in such a land, you don't get the Sunday Scaries (or Sunday Depresso, a I call it), cuz there's no Monday the next day. It's just Sundays, ad infinitum. 

This is the next song in the Fucked Up Relationship Album, Part 2. It's about the girl, who broke up with her boyfriend, feeling fucked cuz of the break-up-induced-depression and wondering if she should call her ex and stuff. The song came to me last night, starting out as a bunch of nonsense syllables with a bunch of fucks in there. In the light of day of today, I decided to take the nonsense syllables and make 'em into regular words, so what you end up hearing in the song is:Yaddis fuckdiss fuckt, fuckdiss fuckt, fuckdiss saddest her Yeah, this fuckedness sucks, it fucks with, fucks, fucks with saddest her