Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge: Track By Track
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Having just released his debut album 'Falling Off The Lavendar Bridge', Lightspeed Champion has given fans a run down of every single track on it. All twelve of them. So here you go, sort-of borrowed sort-of stolen from Dev's blog, here's his album track by track:
1. Number 1
This was track originally part of 'Galaxy Of The Lost'.
The whole song was called 'NO:1 Galaxy Of The Lost' which was inspired by some sci fi novel I was reading at the time by Gregory Kern... it was part of a collection of novels capturing the 'Adventures Of Captain Kennedy Super-Hero Of The Spaceways.'... Anyway, when recording the album this was going to be all of track 2, and a song called "This Is What Happens When The T.v Is Broken" was going to be track one. I later then realised that I wanted the album to pretty much start straight away, and 'TV Broken...' is kind of an acoustic intro song... and I didn't really want a moment of just acoustic guitar and vocals, hence, breaking up 'Number 1' and 'Galaxy...'.
2. Galaxy Of The Lost
When I wrote the music and put the lyrics to this song. I thought it was a load of nothing... not a bad song, just a nothing song.. it originally didn't have a second verse or second chorus, but was still kinda long as it was played much slower in the demo.
Lyrically it is about the effects of alcohol in a relationship I was having at the time.. the ironic part of the song though is in the second verse I added...
The months leading up towards going to Omaha to record the album I was experimenting with alcohol... so by the time I got to Omaha I was not in a good state... I'mn not a drinker and I have the worlds worst stomach... so yeah.. shit was dark.. anyway.. One night I wrote the lyrics for the second verse to galaxy, whilst in bed.... so that whole verse is just about me and how i felt at the time, and how i felt like a hypacrite moaning in this song about someone I loved drinking ,then me going and doing the same thing. So the second verse is detatched but I guess also relevent to the song.
3. Tell Me What It's Worth
This is the earliest out of all the songs I wrote on the album.. I think I wrote the music to it whilst I was recovering at my parents house after severing a toe whilst playing a show with Testicicles...
The lyrics are based on walking around Dalston in East London, which incedentally, I live now.. kinda, well for the last year or so. I'm moving out as I type this..
Anyway... A few years ago I was having alot of daydreams, part of my insomnia I guess.. I would have the most vivid fantasies whilst walking down the street, or sitting on the bus, mainly violent... whatever dude...
This song is about one said day dream where I imagined a massacre taking place in Dalston whilst I was walking around.
4. All To Shit
The demo to this has differant lyrics, so I just realised, I'm not too sure why though.
It's about a failing relationship...blah blah blah broken record blah...
Musically though, it was part of an epic 4 minute pop rock song I wrote around the same time called "Shower Your Love On Me" which featured 3 guitar solos and a key change.
I actually wanted to put this song on the album but everyone realised including myself that it'd be a bit much for people to deal with.
5. Midnight Surprise
Now realising that I probably was going to be making an album, I wanted to actually "try" and write a piece of music that could tie the whole album together.
I already had all the lyrics from a block of writing I had done a year earlier whilst on a plane... so I wanted to just conentrate on music, and not just write a song in 10 minutes which is pretty much what I did for the rest of the record.
So without going into too much detail I experimented with various forms of meditation as a way of trying to cleanse my emotions. I figured that would just get in the way of things... If I shut myself away and try and look at this song as a building, then all I would need to do is place the bricks till eventually it looked like the building I had pictured in my head..
The core of the songs music is taken from a song I had written some months earlier based on "The Legend Of Zelda". I kept some of those lyrics in.,,"wake up princess...", "Fuck.. I think she just saw me..." which was originally "Fuck I think they just saw me"... based on Links quest to find the princess.
Mainly lyrically this is just about sexual frustration and obsession It's the only song in my life i've made up words for. e.g. [i] 'Ejaquantumbreeze'.... backing vocals were provided by tilly and the wall and members of son, ambulance and coyote bones.
6. Devil Tricks For A Bitch
I woke up one morning in my flat, completely defeated.
I didn't believe an album was ever going to be made, I hated all the songs I had.. and hated all the millions of new songs I then tried to write for the record...(none of them made it...turned out all the old ones were better)... and The level of abuse from rudeboys I was getting was hitting an all time high/low.
I wanted to go to sainsburys, I had no food... but I couldn't face going outside.. I have these minor battles in my life that come and go in seasonal periods... this would turn out to be day one of a minor reclusive period... everything came out in this song, i wrote the lyrics in one take along with the music, i still have the one take version somewhere... i knew i wanetd it to be strings, it's what i imagined in my head when I did it... i'm still kinda impressed with myself for makign the lyrics up on the spot, i'm pretty good at freestyling, hidden talent,. but yeah, the lyrics are the original ones on the freestyled demo.
7. I Could Have Done This Myself
This song is about the time I lost my birginity, but only it turns out to be the second time as I forgot about the first, this song is pretty self explanatory.
Musically I kinda wished I worked on it a bit more. It's a perfect example of how I was writing songs a few years ago with stupid song structures just because I was too lazy to work on them, well.. i'd assume the first version was always the 'real' version.. i've since learnt this is NOT true.. again backing vocals on recording by the same crew.
The original demo fo this song had some kind of funk induced modest mouse chorus type bit... needless to say I got rid of that hah.
8. Salty Water
The second oldest song on the album. The original demo was all done on musical typing on a powerbook g4... with the tv on in the background for every take. It was actually the first song I ever put on the myspace account.. the demo version.
9. Dry Lips
This song has been through alot of differant versions. Originally only a slow minute long version.. that was the structure for the first two demos I did... then 4am one morning/night.. I just started expanding it.. and taking more lyrics from the huge block of writing, i then recorded the cello , uke and harmonica parts in my bedroom.. I think the demo version will be a b-side to the next single.
The album version MIke and I played alot of various guitars and overdubbed alot of parts to have this weird octave feel where you don't wuite know which pitch it's in. I really love this version.. I don't know when I will ever get to play it like this, because I really want to do the recorded version justice.
Lyrically it's about one of a few nights in my life I got completely wasted due to an argument with girlfriend and best friend... the next morning coming home without having any rest or sleep, being on the tube and bus with people going to work.. felt like the end of the world, obviously a few hours later, i did not feel the same way, but whilst i was writing the lyrics on the plane I was recalling that moment.
I think the end of this song is the most ridicupous moment on the album, completely over the top haha.
10. Everyone I know I Listening To Crunk
I wrote this song less than an hour after I broke up with my girlfriend of three years.
Everything I talk about in the song is completely factual... "genesis" is the cinema we lived across the road from in our old apartment. When we lived seperatly I did in fact have the "new o.c" downloaded fresh every week... and there was a period where all my friends really were only listening to crunk.
11. Let The Bitches Die
This was my attempt at writing a song not from my perspective... i obviously failed as it is actually about me.
I knew I wanted Emmy to sing lead vocals at some point on the record.. I figured since bitch was in the title.. she could sing this one.. joke... But anyway, on the demo there were certain high points I had trouble projecting.. and I was already losing my voice at this point in the day of recording.. I did it anyway, then when Emmy flew out to Omaha I then realised that since this song is supposedly about someone else... she could sing and we could go back and fourth like storytellers... I love her voice on this song.
12. No Surprise
This is the only song on the album that I wrote in Omaha.Music and Lyrics...
The original version had an extra section which could actually have been called the chorus, but I figured that was a bit too much, and it was also a bit too 'emo'... that version is on the american e.p I think...
I wanted a song where it was aminly piano and/or wurlitzer on the album... so it took alot of hardwork from everyone involved too pull this song together so we could do it justice when recording it, as alot of the other songs we were recording ahd been alive for a year, but this one had been alive for like... a few hours... so every night i'd be working on it... it turned out to be one of my favourites on the album..
It's called 'Midnight Surprise Reprise' also becausein the original orignalllll version I wrote, it included backing vocals from midnight surprise.. not just music from it..
Lyrically this song is literally just about where my mind was at the time.. rather than just one theme.
The opening two "verses" which musically never come back into the song are about how everyone I spoke to in Omaha seemed in love and settled and/or married... it made me envious...I mean, that's the dream right? Anyway, these beginning verses are about a fictional girl.
Then after that it's just me moaning about how sick I was getting through stomach issues e.t.c...and 'hear it summon..swing and miss'... is in regards to how ridiculous abd I am at reading body language and signs that are meant to guide us through life.
'More I hear More I hate' is in regards to everytime I got in touch with someone back in london they told me something which I really didn't want to hear... I wanted to start again... I wanted to stay in Omaha.
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Having just released his debut album 'Falling Off The Lavendar Bridge', Lightspeed Champion has given fans a run down of every single track on it. All twelve of them. So here you go, sort-of borrowed sort-of stolen from Dev's blog, here's his album track by track:
1. Number 1
This was track originally part of 'Galaxy Of The Lost'.
The whole song was called 'NO:1 Galaxy Of The Lost' which was inspired by some sci fi novel I was reading at the time by Gregory Kern... it was part of a collection of novels capturing the 'Adventures Of Captain Kennedy Super-Hero Of The Spaceways.'... Anyway, when recording the album this was going to be all of track 2, and a song called "This Is What Happens When The T.v Is Broken" was going to be track one. I later then realised that I wanted the album to pretty much start straight away, and 'TV Broken...' is kind of an acoustic intro song... and I didn't really want a moment of just acoustic guitar and vocals, hence, breaking up 'Number 1' and 'Galaxy...'.
2. Galaxy Of The Lost
When I wrote the music and put the lyrics to this song. I thought it was a load of nothing... not a bad song, just a nothing song.. it originally didn't have a second verse or second chorus, but was still kinda long as it was played much slower in the demo.
Lyrically it is about the effects of alcohol in a relationship I was having at the time.. the ironic part of the song though is in the second verse I added...
The months leading up towards going to Omaha to record the album I was experimenting with alcohol... so by the time I got to Omaha I was not in a good state... I'mn not a drinker and I have the worlds worst stomach... so yeah.. shit was dark.. anyway.. One night I wrote the lyrics for the second verse to galaxy, whilst in bed.... so that whole verse is just about me and how i felt at the time, and how i felt like a hypacrite moaning in this song about someone I loved drinking ,then me going and doing the same thing. So the second verse is detatched but I guess also relevent to the song.
3. Tell Me What It's Worth
This is the earliest out of all the songs I wrote on the album.. I think I wrote the music to it whilst I was recovering at my parents house after severing a toe whilst playing a show with Testicicles...
The lyrics are based on walking around Dalston in East London, which incedentally, I live now.. kinda, well for the last year or so. I'm moving out as I type this..
Anyway... A few years ago I was having alot of daydreams, part of my insomnia I guess.. I would have the most vivid fantasies whilst walking down the street, or sitting on the bus, mainly violent... whatever dude...
This song is about one said day dream where I imagined a massacre taking place in Dalston whilst I was walking around.
4. All To Shit
The demo to this has differant lyrics, so I just realised, I'm not too sure why though.
It's about a failing relationship...blah blah blah broken record blah...
Musically though, it was part of an epic 4 minute pop rock song I wrote around the same time called "Shower Your Love On Me" which featured 3 guitar solos and a key change.
I actually wanted to put this song on the album but everyone realised including myself that it'd be a bit much for people to deal with.
5. Midnight Surprise
Now realising that I probably was going to be making an album, I wanted to actually "try" and write a piece of music that could tie the whole album together.
I already had all the lyrics from a block of writing I had done a year earlier whilst on a plane... so I wanted to just conentrate on music, and not just write a song in 10 minutes which is pretty much what I did for the rest of the record.
So without going into too much detail I experimented with various forms of meditation as a way of trying to cleanse my emotions. I figured that would just get in the way of things... If I shut myself away and try and look at this song as a building, then all I would need to do is place the bricks till eventually it looked like the building I had pictured in my head..
The core of the songs music is taken from a song I had written some months earlier based on "The Legend Of Zelda". I kept some of those lyrics in.,,"wake up princess...", "Fuck.. I think she just saw me..." which was originally "Fuck I think they just saw me"... based on Links quest to find the princess.
Mainly lyrically this is just about sexual frustration and obsession It's the only song in my life i've made up words for. e.g. [i] 'Ejaquantumbreeze'.... backing vocals were provided by tilly and the wall and members of son, ambulance and coyote bones.
6. Devil Tricks For A Bitch
I woke up one morning in my flat, completely defeated.
I didn't believe an album was ever going to be made, I hated all the songs I had.. and hated all the millions of new songs I then tried to write for the record...(none of them made it...turned out all the old ones were better)... and The level of abuse from rudeboys I was getting was hitting an all time high/low.
I wanted to go to sainsburys, I had no food... but I couldn't face going outside.. I have these minor battles in my life that come and go in seasonal periods... this would turn out to be day one of a minor reclusive period... everything came out in this song, i wrote the lyrics in one take along with the music, i still have the one take version somewhere... i knew i wanetd it to be strings, it's what i imagined in my head when I did it... i'm still kinda impressed with myself for makign the lyrics up on the spot, i'm pretty good at freestyling, hidden talent,. but yeah, the lyrics are the original ones on the freestyled demo.
7. I Could Have Done This Myself
This song is about the time I lost my birginity, but only it turns out to be the second time as I forgot about the first, this song is pretty self explanatory.
Musically I kinda wished I worked on it a bit more. It's a perfect example of how I was writing songs a few years ago with stupid song structures just because I was too lazy to work on them, well.. i'd assume the first version was always the 'real' version.. i've since learnt this is NOT true.. again backing vocals on recording by the same crew.
The original demo fo this song had some kind of funk induced modest mouse chorus type bit... needless to say I got rid of that hah.
8. Salty Water
The second oldest song on the album. The original demo was all done on musical typing on a powerbook g4... with the tv on in the background for every take. It was actually the first song I ever put on the myspace account.. the demo version.
9. Dry Lips
This song has been through alot of differant versions. Originally only a slow minute long version.. that was the structure for the first two demos I did... then 4am one morning/night.. I just started expanding it.. and taking more lyrics from the huge block of writing, i then recorded the cello , uke and harmonica parts in my bedroom.. I think the demo version will be a b-side to the next single.
The album version MIke and I played alot of various guitars and overdubbed alot of parts to have this weird octave feel where you don't wuite know which pitch it's in. I really love this version.. I don't know when I will ever get to play it like this, because I really want to do the recorded version justice.
Lyrically it's about one of a few nights in my life I got completely wasted due to an argument with girlfriend and best friend... the next morning coming home without having any rest or sleep, being on the tube and bus with people going to work.. felt like the end of the world, obviously a few hours later, i did not feel the same way, but whilst i was writing the lyrics on the plane I was recalling that moment.
I think the end of this song is the most ridicupous moment on the album, completely over the top haha.
10. Everyone I know I Listening To Crunk
I wrote this song less than an hour after I broke up with my girlfriend of three years.
Everything I talk about in the song is completely factual... "genesis" is the cinema we lived across the road from in our old apartment. When we lived seperatly I did in fact have the "new o.c" downloaded fresh every week... and there was a period where all my friends really were only listening to crunk.
11. Let The Bitches Die
This was my attempt at writing a song not from my perspective... i obviously failed as it is actually about me.
I knew I wanted Emmy to sing lead vocals at some point on the record.. I figured since bitch was in the title.. she could sing this one.. joke... But anyway, on the demo there were certain high points I had trouble projecting.. and I was already losing my voice at this point in the day of recording.. I did it anyway, then when Emmy flew out to Omaha I then realised that since this song is supposedly about someone else... she could sing and we could go back and fourth like storytellers... I love her voice on this song.
12. No Surprise
This is the only song on the album that I wrote in Omaha.Music and Lyrics...
The original version had an extra section which could actually have been called the chorus, but I figured that was a bit too much, and it was also a bit too 'emo'... that version is on the american e.p I think...
I wanted a song where it was aminly piano and/or wurlitzer on the album... so it took alot of hardwork from everyone involved too pull this song together so we could do it justice when recording it, as alot of the other songs we were recording ahd been alive for a year, but this one had been alive for like... a few hours... so every night i'd be working on it... it turned out to be one of my favourites on the album..
It's called 'Midnight Surprise Reprise' also becausein the original orignalllll version I wrote, it included backing vocals from midnight surprise.. not just music from it..
Lyrically this song is literally just about where my mind was at the time.. rather than just one theme.
The opening two "verses" which musically never come back into the song are about how everyone I spoke to in Omaha seemed in love and settled and/or married... it made me envious...I mean, that's the dream right? Anyway, these beginning verses are about a fictional girl.
Then after that it's just me moaning about how sick I was getting through stomach issues e.t.c...and 'hear it summon..swing and miss'... is in regards to how ridiculous abd I am at reading body language and signs that are meant to guide us through life.
'More I hear More I hate' is in regards to everytime I got in touch with someone back in london they told me something which I really didn't want to hear... I wanted to start again... I wanted to stay in Omaha.
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