Let's do some Irish trad! But like, obscene.
I was sort of stuck for what to use for cover art this week...and then Dr Frog gestured at the wall behind me. Oh yeah! Let's just take a pic of the instruments I used this week. Tenor banjo, bodhran, bones, pennywhistle, guitar (FrankenGuitar) and upright bass (Ol' #12!). My MIDI and synths and noise are getting lonely. Soon, my precious...
So, neon liminal is partially to blame(?) for this track, waaaaay back in week 8. From my post on Nasty (paraphrasing a bit):
neon liminal wrote:I mean... its a great frigging track...BUT...
You can and have been much, much, much filthier and disgusting and more nasty.
I challenge ye hence to deliver me atrocious levels of filth...
To which the response was:
Paisleyfrog wrote:
CHALLENGE FUCKING ACCEPTED. I can yea verily feel the gauntlet wherens't it hath been flung across my face forthwith.
Although we had thought we would swap Nasty challenges back in April. Sometimes Life hates making music. :)
What makes this particularly funny is the somewhat bardic nature of my reply is in contrast to the expected sleazy rock we were going to do....but it rather fits with the tracks the Dr and I have been doing lately. This rather has a sense of humor, nasty with a wink and a nudge.
This song has been living in our lyrics book for about six years. The song is a co-write, but the melody and lyrics are primarily Doctor Frog's. Let's let her talk about it!
Doctor Frog wrote:
This song was inspired by a collaborative writing session sometime around 2020. Bridgerton had just come out, and it was sweeping the country with Regency era romance. You know, society drama, social pining, and marriage as the goal. As we were pinging topics back and forth, the idea of writing about an anti-heroine using (very) old euphemisms for sex came up. We were laughing hysterically about the phrases that surfaced in our searching (see “grope for trout in hidden streams”), and a song tumbled out.
Fast forward to this summer where I actually have time to write music with Paisleyfrog. We talked about collaborating on some trad music, a favorite of both of us. As we were thinking about last week’s offering, I remembered this week’s lyrics (yes, I do keep everything organized so I can find our past work). A quick hunt in the lyrics document, a bouncy melody, and a raunchy sing later, and this song came to life.
This piece uses a common trad strategy of offering two songs in one, usually with the second song as the instrumental interlude. “I Ain’t No Gothic Heroine” combines with “Boys of Blue Hill” to make “The Nasty Set.” The congruence in the song title is a lovely irony!
We hope you enjoy this ribald and unapologetically sexual romp.
Sometimes a song needs to wait until the right moment to come out, and this year's Weekly Beats with all the Early Music we've been working on was exactly the right time :)
› Paisleyfrog's comments‹ Paisleyfrog's comments
I went through the setlist of my old Celtic band and found Boy of Blue Hill - a hornpipe that fit well with our new melody. Once again we had to work on key a bit - The Doctor likes F, but Boys of Blue Balls...um....Hill...is in D. Easy solution: play the whistle part on an F pipe and I can use the same fingerings (heh huhhehehe huhheh). I didn't initially know it on banjo, but I don't play in F much there. Just cheated and used a capo so I could use the finger positioning I'm used to.
These tunes have a really prominent triplet feel (as is evidenced in the bodhran part), but they're counted in four as these are both hornpipes - the main distinction is the heavy bounce on the eighth notes. A traditional tune counted in 12/8 is called a Slide, and is a much lighter feel. Hornpipes are heavy clogging songs, while jigs, slip jigs and slides (hehe hehe heh) are much lighter.
Other instruments - decided on a dance band/céilí style, which is what my old band largely was. Thus the bass! I also pulled out bodhran and the bones (heehhuhheu heheh hhuheeh). Bones are a percussion instrument played like spoons, and originally were literal bones (mine are wood...hehhe huh heheh...wood.) I liked the percussion changeup in the middle, and also the bones played a bit with that clogging feel.
Wanted a bawdy, sweaty bar singalong feel for this, so I used a few clips from freesound.org. The Doctor and I went back and forth on just how much to add. My initial mix had a LOT more audience sound, but she found that distracting. I pulled it back, and we ended up with this mix. It was actually a little contentious for a bit. :)
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The shouting singalong parts at the chorus is all me though :)
This is actually Nasty part 1....we have another track planned that is more along the original rock lines.
More to come. (Hehhe huh eheh huh heheh hehe huh huh heh heh heh...)
› Lyrics‹ Lyrics
I aint a gothic heroine
My bonnet won’t sit true
I don’t have sisters or a flaw
Or gentle breeding through
I don’t want moody dancing lairds
Or wicked aunts true blue
Fainting couches ain’t my style
Just want a fuck with you
Chorus
Just want a fuck with you my lad
Just want a fuck with you
Don’t want no courtly gestures
Just want a fuck with you
Just want a fuck with you my lad
Just want a fuck with you
Let’s grope for trout in hidden streams
Just want a fuck with you
Verse
My laces always come undone
My stockings won’t sit high
I cannot cross my ankles
Let alone press closed my thighs
I don’t have any pearls to clutch
Or marriage to pursue
Loveless contracts ain't my style
Just want a fuck with you
Chorus
Instrumental Break
Verse
I want you to plow my garden
Go rolling in the hay
Kneeling at your altar
A delectable buffet
Come find my hidden valley
And ride in my canoe
My pussy needs its fill of cream
Just want a fuck with you
Chorus
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