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The Mighty Control Z
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A song about one way to deal with certain common mistakes. It is a submission for Dreamsville's "A Perfect Score!:10-10-10" project.
rock acoustic ambient blues comedy philosophical indietronic highly experimental
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Highly ExperiMental, Rock, Blues, Electronica, Ambient, Acoustic, Comedy, Philosophical...
Richard "Cool-as-Hell" Sinclair and Michael "Punslinger" Honsinger have been making spontaneously original music together since soon after they first met in 1985. After a jam or two, the Punslinger lent Richard his Fostex X-15 4-track cassette recorder; Richard impressed him so much by writing the song "Forwards in Time" that the Punman joined forces and the dynamic duo soon morphed into Quantum Mechanix by combining musical gear, ideas, and jokes; and taking cassette 4-tracks to their very limits... and beyond! The first few years were extremely experimental! Combining Rock, Pop, Electronica and Beyond together, they blazed their own trail through the underground of the Olympia Underground music scene (unseen by K records, Steve Fiske, Bakini Kill, Marcy Playground, the Melvins, Nirvana, Bratmobile and many others). They should have called themselves Secret Identity! Afraid to share their music with anyone, they languished in obscurity which fueled even more inspired songs of worth! They have released one album: Quantum Mechanix '88 (11 years after Talking Heads '77) There were only 50 cassettes produced. They later joined forces with drummer Patrick Padovan (who played at their first 2 jams) and transformed into Art Official... recently they have been known to call themselves Triple Dog Dare.
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Peak #108
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Michael Honsinger
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2010 by Michael Honsinger
Uploaded
July 25, 2010
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MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:19
Story behind the song
A few months ago, I pulled out Frozen Plastic's first album---Headphone Macroscope---to relisten to it, so I could finally finish writing its' review, which I had promised them 3 years ago! It inspired me to pull out my Micro Korg keyboard. After I had recorded most of the non-vocal tracks, my daughter came into the room and wanted me to go with her to feed the horses. I told her I had to save what I'd been working on. She stood next to me as I was going through the simple steps to do so; when I paused to think of a name to call it, she said "Control Z". I thought it was a pretty funny joke and a pretty good name as well (I don't think she really wanted me to erase it, even though she was probably sick of hearing it played so much during its' construction.) When I named it that, she objected and I replied that I had to call it something and it was as good as anything and it might even become a song; I told her how many of our songs were written in just that way. Well sure enough, later that evening the lyrics "wrote themselves" and a new song made its' way into the World!
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The Mighty Control Z There comes a time in everyone's life When their own mistakes undo them There comes a time in everyone's life When they need something to help them There comes a time in everyone's life When their own mistakes confuse them Why be a victim of your mistakes When you can undo them? Use the help of the Mighty Control Z I use the Mighty Control Z Super Powers come in handy So many times things happen That aren't of our intentions Didn't you know that our mistakes Are the Grandmothers of Invention There comes a time in everyone's life When they need something to help them The Mighty Control Z That's what I use
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