These are fun to read! Keep going! Thanks Sam! I'm really enjoying jogging the memories, too. WTF - First song ever to start with the phrase "Wispy turtle fart" That last repeating little sample is Colin giggling, that was some excellent sampling skills from the now well practiced Isaac. ...

Paperback Writer - I swear I had an idea for this song. I really did. I can't remember what it was, but it was there. And it didn't pan out. OK, I haven't actually started listening to this one yet. I haven't been looking forward to revisiting this one. I'm going to step away from the computer a mo...

Texas - It's true Colin was responsible for the backing track of "Upcoming Downtime" but that was unwitting participation, in reality, this was his first WreckdoM song. It's almost impossible to remember what it was first like working with Colin since we've done so much of it since. After...

The Chair we share - And there goes all that voting momentum. So this was the week that SongFight came to Austin. We immediately told everybody upon the announcement that we would play, we had no idea how we would go about doing that, and completely failed to make a plan. So we didn't play. When I ...

Elvis in Space - So I can't do a very good Elvis impersonation but that doesn't stop me! As I recall a lot of folks got a kick out of this one, myself included. The bookend parts came first. We were discussing what to do in the middle and I have a very clear recollection of standing in the kitchen ...

Caravan Ray wrote:Pretty sure that So Kind Stacy by Wreckdom was the first songfight song I ever heard - after randomly stumbling across the website one night. It didn't frighten me away

Wow! Well I am also very glad we didn't scare you off! That's neat!

Say the word - This song was no overnight thing, we definitely worked on this several times throughout the week. I wanted Ike to sing the lyrics because I had no confidence in my abilities as a singer. Everything we did before this was talking or goofy not singing, "So Kind Stacey" was re...

So Kind, Stacey - I believe that Isaac was keeping Colin aware of WreckdoM while we were doing it. I'm not sure exactly when I met Colin officially, we figured out much later we'd met socially a few times. My earliest memory of him is him coming over with Steel Reserve, a malt liquor I had never ha...

A Promise is a Promise - The idea behind this one is that I would record one half a conversation, making it up as I go along, and then record the second half while listening to the first half for the first time. After recording the first part Isaac liked what we had so much he wanted to leave it as...

There are so many possibilities - I've watched the movie Casino over and over, maybe more so than any other Scorsese film. It's not my favorite, I just find it extremely revisitable. I'd wanted to use those Pesci samples for a while. The other samples come from an educational cassette tape about ho...

Talk about your feelings - After coming back from being out of town, it didn't seem like we could line stuff to put a song together. I think I had resigned to just miss this fight, and then Isaac churned this one out on his own in one night. My guess is he made it after a night at Barfly's, and tha...

A Very Unlikely Occurrence - We wrote these lyrics down and were reading them off the paper huddled together, hence the at times awkward delivery. That's me, Isaac and Ike explaining what would happen if we ever won songfight. We recorded the vocals with no idea how the music would be. I went back ...

Dinga Da Donga - Another instance where I wrote with a clear idea of a song in my head that Isaac and I were completely incapable of realizing. These are verse-chorus-verse-chorus lyrics, but up against our wall of noise treatment that was our one and only specialty at the time. Isaac sampled himse...

Here is me and Isaac 10 years later! We had lunch Yesterday with Colin for Colin's bday. I would've gotten his picture too, but he hates having his image recorded, and it was his bday, so I let it go. when I get to a point in these recollections where he joins the band I might try to get a pic then....

She's on my mind - It's a country song, obviously! Our intention was to make a country song. The two vocal takes did not come close to lining up or following the same rhythm, again, I don't know if I was recording to a click track or not, but probably not. Isaac just set them next to each other and...

RangerDenni wrote:this is great, I love this thread! I forgot to send you your photos from your show! Eeek! This would be a good time

If you got some, we'll take them! That video was awfully nice

Zombie Son - This is one I was dreading revisiting. I'm remembering now this recurring feeling I had of having an idea for a song and that idea getting drowned in our limitations, and something weird and not together memorable would sometimes come out instead, and when the song was finished feeling...

Nicely Toasted - I know I've said we liked what we were doing, but never were we so pleased with ourselves as we were with this song. I still dearly love and enjoy listening to this. We didn't have or know how to play keyboards, this was done with the tones already available with fruity loops, I gu...

Danger Bus - There's actual guitar and bass on this song, thanks to house guests coming over and being coerced into playing something for us. The two things didn't match at all, they both were completely different and when we listened to them afterwards I remember thinking I had no idea how we were...

Silent Pipe - This song features Isaac's girlfriend at the time, Rachel. Rachel had a rockabilly thing going on with tattoos and all, she was not the type of lady Isaac usually hung out with. I remember I liked her at first, especially since she'd record stuff for us, but I never quite felt the sam...

I'm revisiting each entry as I write these, some I haven't listened to in some time. I've also encouraged Richard WreckdoM to dust off his message board id and chime in, I'm sure he remembers some stuff I don't. I've forgotten a lot. WreckdoM - Isaac is a friend from back home in Ohio I've known sin...

We had to enter this one, as it's our 10 year anniversary. I'm extremely grateful to this community and the fine folks who run it for it's tolerance and support. Ya'll are good people. I'd like very much to celebrate a 20th anniversary, should things hold out that long on your end and ours