Mother nature wants us dead. Some of us more than others.

From the album "Off Brand."

A creator of FuMPy music's life is an eternal tug-of-war between our desire to be good at music and our desire to obsess over the videogames, anime, and other nerdy hobbies that lead us down this dark path.

Nerd Regrets is an ode to one of those sides losing. As I spend more and more time trying to master the craft of playing geeky music, I have spent less and less time immersed in the geeky cultures inspiring the music.

It is a litany of failure in under two minutes

From the Damn Skippy reissue!

One MUST have a parody of a Proclaimers song if one is to return to Scotland in the summertime... so now I do!

Music: Charlie Reid and Craig Reid

Lyrics: SG. Timothy J Weber, Niamh Bagnell

Guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals, arrangement, production: SG

Vocal: Timothy J Weber

Backing vocalizations: Timothy J Weber, Niamh Bagnell, Esme Davis

From my new album which you should totally buy,

"The Artist Eventually Known As Somebody You've Heard Of" at www.stevegoodie.com!

For the FuMP's Tribute to Dr. Demento, I wanted to write an original song about what the good Doctor's show meant to me, and how it has influenced pretty much my whole life. I wouldn't be writing and performing comedy music, I wouldn't have the friends and relationships I have, and I wouldn't be where I am, let alone who I am without his show and his influence. So thank you Barry...all of this is your fault. And I mean that affectionately.

Lyrics and Vocals: Insane Ian

Music: "Pico and Sepulveda" by Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra, as covered by Power Salad, and then sampled by Trevor Morgan

It's finally here! Fruits of the Smogberry Trees: The FuMP's Tribute to Dr. Demento is now available in the store, and this is the closing track.

Members of The FuMP got together to write and record new verses for the all-time classic song "Shaving Cream" by Benny Bell, and got special permission to include Benny's own vocals in this song from a special appearance he made on The Dr. Demento Show in the 1970s.

Music, background vocals, and production: Chris Mezzolesta

Vocals and new lyrics (in order): Benny Bell, Insane Ian, Carrie Dahlby and Alexann, the great Luke Ski, Bonnie Gordon*, Tom Smith, Devo Spice, Carla Ulbrich, Worm Quartet, Power Salad**

*Lyrics by Devo Spice

**Lyrics by Benny Bell, mostly

Special thanks to Joel Samberg.

There are certain people whom we'd rather not interact with daily but must, usually not by our own choice. This is for them.

From the album "Off Brand."

Hi. Spaff here. Some kids want to grow up to be President or cure cancer. My goal was to get a song on the Dr. Demento Show. I listened to it faithfully every Sunday night, often with headphones so my mom wouldn't overhear songs like "Making Love in a Subaru."

In the early 2000s I somehow convinced Robert Lund, a Salt Lake radio personality, to record some of my song parody ideas, all of which I immediately sent to Dr. Demento. On November 28, 2004, he played "I Want Some Plastic Surgery for Christmas." I was giddy.

Robert and I have since collaborated on over a hundred songs, and Dr. Demento has played a number of them. I remain giddy.

So here's another. It's a tribute to Dr. Demento via a list of songs from the days he hooked me. (Needless to say, he has played countless more effing awesome comedy songs in the intervening years, some of which were created by the people reading this.)

It's a parody of "Ripple," a song the Grateful Dead wrote and recorded in 1970, the year Barret Hansen became Dr. Demento.

Pass the claret to me, Barret! May you forever stay demented.

~~~

CREDITS: Turns out Robert owns mandolins (plural) and has played them his whole life. Also he sang and played guitar and produced this recording. "Ripple" has lyrics by Robert Hunter and music by someone named Jerry Garcia. Dr. Demento brought all of these comedy songs to our attention, and the legendary titles listed here are the brain children of their various legendary parents. BUT I DID EVERYTHING ELSE.

A musical plea from teachers, before the school year begins

The Disney+ "Star Wars" TV series titled "Andor" recently finished its 2nd and final Season to much well deserved critical acclaim. I, the great Luke Ski, a fan of the "Star Wars" franchise since the first movie was released when I was 3 years old, very much enjoyed this series set in the years leading into the events of the film "Rogue One", which itself was set leading into the events of the aforementioned 1977 movie.

That said...

...there was something about this show that set it apart from other "Star Wars" movies and shows of the past / since, and something that happened in Season 2 (or more accurately didn't happen) that really underscored that difference. So I decided to write this sketch in which droid K-2SO asks Rebel Captain Cassian Andor an important question that I felt was left unanswered by the series.

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering - Imperial Sound Supervisor Chris Mezzolesta

Much love and respect to - Alan Tudyk, Diego Luna, Tony Gilroy, and the writers, cast, and crew of "Andor"

PS: To Alan and Diego, if you ever wanted to take the script for this sketch (click the 'lyrics' button to find it) so you two could perform a reading of it live at a convention event or something, you have my permission and eager encouragement to do so.

I also threw together a quick VIDEO for this sketch, which is here: https://youtu.be/gDgjf3wmnxY