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Oral Contact (fyi):
This is another song that dates back to 1980 and our farm attic days. In those days it was a faster 'punk style' song and yes a version exists on tape (it crops up in the background of 'Final Act'). This time I slowed the song down a bit added a couple of chords for the bridge and wrote a lead guitar bit for the middle part. I also re-wrote all the words and changed the subject matter, the old version was about communication too, but it also included the obvious connotations involving the songs title. I added fyi (for your information) to the title after I heard Susan on the T.V. show 'Desperate Housewives' use it. Jake did the drums in one take on this track, so we were calling him, 'one take Jake' for a while. Incidentally Jakes dad Barry heard an early demo of this song, and told me it sounded like The New York Dolls, which is cool, but just to wind Dickey up I keep telling him we should send a copy to Shakin' Stevens - could be there's a thin line between cool and not so cool I guess. This is an observational sort of song on modern life.
Hitchcock Moments: I sing the 'do, da, do, do, do, da, do, do' bits between the verses.
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