Righteous Babe
2004
Songs In The Key Of Beotch
About This Album
Mike Silverman, under the alias That 1 Guy, originally self-recorded and released Songs in the Key of Beotch in 2003, before it was picked up by Righteous Babe in 2004. Appropriate, as Righteous is also home to oddball instrumentalists Drums & Tuba. See, here's the bit: the only accompaniment to That 1 Guy's sardonic, screw-loose vocals ("It's raining meat/And I can't see my own two feet") is what he calls the "magic pipe." A seven-foot-whatever length of tubular steel, rigged with one sturdy bass string and a sloppy seconds and thirds array of pedals, triggers, electronics, and duct tape, the pipe produces pulsing rhythms, metallic clinks, surging faux-strings, and electro-splooge (on "Weasel Potpie," for example). "Steamin' Hunks" sounds like Mountain run through a Cuisinart, the eerie keens and scratches of "Mudpies" are matched by high-end plucks not unlike the sound at the end of a violin stem, and "Sparkle in the Sun" tickles its taps and stutters with a two-note bassline and steaming piles of sample trigger bletch. As a vocalist, 1 Guy hails from the Les Claypool/John McCrea school -- deadpan white guys who rhyme 14-syllable words and delight in filling verses with pop culture detritus jibber jabber.
Track List (try tracks 2,6,9,10 and 11)

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