Ok Go Midi Free To Lay

I was living in Chicago, with my dog Ella, in a downtrodden part of the city where cheap fireworks were considered a high form of entertainment.

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Ok Go Midi Free To Lay

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We set up the drums right in the center of his living room and tracked for I think about ten days with Ken Sluiter engineering the session.

Hes a great friend and engineer we kept from our Chicago days.

I had never really drank coffee until then and remember being amazed by the caffeine jolt I got from it.

I knew then exactly what everybody was so damn excited about when wed take breaks for Starbucks while on tour.

I recorded the song in my bedroom while sharing an apartment in Chicago with our former guitarist Andy Duncan.

Andy did a lot of the programming, played keys, and a wonderful slow and melodic Duncansian guitar solo in the middle of the song.

Make Up Your Mind was written for a friend who was having really difficult relationship problems with her boyfriend at the time.

She was incredibly confused by him because he didnt know whether he wanted in or out of the relationship.

She told me he voiced his confusion with lines like, I mean were just two really different people, you like to drive a car and I like to take the bus and ride my bike.

I really wanted to use that line, but couldnt figure out a way to make it fit rhythmically.

But man, I tried.

Anyway, I felt bad for her and wanted to try to cheer her up with a song.

Put another way: until we finish this album were going to be too busy making music to make a video of our own, so we want you to make one and share it with the world.

Therell be a Peoples Choice winner, too, and a website compiling all the submissions.

To celebrate, this months Unreleased mp3 of the Month is a cover song from one of the great drive-around-too-fast-with-open-car-windows albums of all time, The Breeders Last Splash.

Those songs will always feel like summer to me, and with today being the first t-shirt outside day Ive had all year, it feels like the right time for a throw-back.

Listen closely and you can hear Damian singing the words live in the room.

And just as were not sure what ska-wave were up to currently, it doesnt matter that Damians vocals never made it to the final mix, because the theme of this recording is DANIMAL IN YOUR FACE.

And feel free to sample the living beejeezus out of the five-count-em-five drum breaks.

I remember I was trying to channel a gospel rave-up church band kind of vibe.

In lieu of the still-in-progress new album, may we humbly present to you Junes Official Previously Unreleased OK Go Summer Jam (Sung By Tim) of 2013: a cover of Nellys Hot In Herre recorded in prehistoric times.

It was an animated video that we should probably never speak of again, but it took long hours of Damian and Brian Perkins rummaging the internet to find just exactly what they were looking for.