Monthly Archives: August 2026

The making (or nicking) of a song

 

Some of you might recall the song about Enid some days ago. Even for a shorter, more simple song where the words vaguely fit the musical structure, it’s still not that easy to get the meter of the words to match the riffs exactly … in Them’s case it was easier as Van Morrison ad libbed a lot.

All right, so I thought I might do one about myself, being as honest as I can … for example, my epitaph might be: “He just ran out of time.”

So I started looking at strong bassline songs, from Shaking All Over through The Joker (Steve Miller) to this below (to match my character, manner) and in most I looked at, the instrumental version simply did not agree with the hit version. And not just instrumental but with no karaoke nudges anywhere along the way. So we’re relying on youtube offerings, bearing in mind that they can disappear at a moment’s notice.

In short, it’s a hiding to nothing.

Still worth doing? I think so and I’m going to walk you through the process for this song. It’s New Order’s Temptation from the 80s, not my fave decade. Here’s the original:

Now, immediately, we might be running into embedding issues … particularly playback within the States. Hope it will be ok. The good part is that the instrumental version matches it second for second:

However, there are few natural breaks for cues … that’s great for the integrity of the whole but it plays merry havoc knowing where to come in on each verse or chorus … and there are four of these. Thus … who on earth is this song for? Well, for lil ole moi but also for anyone who cares enough to put the words to it, whilst tapping the YT to keep the time displayed.

Disclaimer time … for copyright reasons, no one, not even friends, has the right to copy, let alone distribute in any way … this is the only place you’ll find it and not as a post but as a page … I’ll supply you with the url of the page. I’m almost burying it in other words.

Now, even had you the words beside you (not yet composed by lil ole moi), you’d still need the track, plus these timings of the original below:

  • 1:16 Verse 1 four lines
  • 1:47 Chorus twice
  • 2:03 Ooooooo
  • 2:18 Instrumental
  • 2:24 Verse 2 four lines
  • 2:56 Chorus twice
  • 3:12 Ooooooo
  • 3:44 Instrumental
  • 4:04 (Green eyes) Change of verse structure
  • 4:36 (Bolts from above) Change of chorus structure
  • 5:06 (Oh it’s the last time) Pre-outro
  • 5:37 Instrumental outro (with aaaahs at the start)

The task is to make it unlike what New Order had in mind (coz that was their created experience) and make it more some sort of new personal anthem. Might not work, can never be used anywhere else … sounds a nice task to me.

Friday [6 to 10]

(0748) Morning. Nondescript out there. (0916)

 

10. Moo corner


As I mentioned to Moo, one of those characters may well have been me, or a forerunner of. Look at the way he’s standing, the manner … compare to my profile pic.

9. Are you thinking disapproved things right now?


The lay lines are established. Have no idea why I just wrote that, as it would mean zero to many. It means the lines a yacht would have to take to “lay” the next buoy, the next mark. Loosely meaning the boundaries of where you could sail. Or the boundaries, in politics, of what could be said before Thought Plod were sent to harass or arrest you.

8. The mystery cabinet


7. The forced adulteration of our food


When even the core ingredient is forced to include the poison . This is murder of certain groups, e.g. those with stents. But how to stop these psychos? Look at that Labour vote again.

6. This one really needs to be a news item

… asking why … or more importantly, how to get off this rodent wheel?


218 votes. Now look, good people, despite appearances, I’m not a dyed-in-the-wool Reform Party person, not being a party person … yet They do appear to be the only ones with a genuine policy platform, with thought out policies.

Yet even Restore has a central issue it has not resolved … civnat versus ethnat. Lucy White is clearly ethnat, while a friend of mine is the other end of the spectrum, both implacable. Lucy says where you’re born is not the point … it’s of what stock you are, what tribal group, what ancestry, heritage.

Therefore, Obama’s mother rushing to Hawaii to have the baby, according to Lucy, is at best half-Americam at best. Anchor babe Bad Enough of Ghana/Nigeria/wherever is not British, wherever ger birth was. Yet Spike Milligan was certainly British …

… unless of course he rejected everything about Britain, like Lawrence of Arabia and the entire left. His previous generations were all from here, yet he felt no affinity with the culture and underpinnings.

In short, it’s messy. Accent comes into it as well. What of Tony Greig? The other extreme to ethnat is as fraught with illogic … it’s pure anchor baby. As long as you can get the mother inside the borders, that foreign kid is suddenly oure British.

Then we get to the “other culture” folk who came in legitimately, went through the hoops, are more British perhaps than the British. And what of expats? What, for that matter, about blacks born and bred here but their behaviour betrays other origins and loyalties?

And back to 218 votes. Forget “divisive”, I’m more interested in “destructive” as the core factor in someone staying here. And how to get people voting for a genuine member of the nation? They come of age, having been woke-brainwashed or apolitical … yet they have the vote.

These are the people putting Labour back in, with predictable consequences.

Friday [1 to 5]

(0529) Been gathering, still dark, fairly peripheral news only this morning, which does not diminish its importance to the poor souls involved. (0559)

 

5. The lunacy of the demonstration


And here is where Yuri Bezmenov’s dire warning in the mid 80s was so perspicacious, so prescient … he said that people will lose all ability to reason, facts count for nothing anymore.

That that generation is lost, gone. Only chance is two generations down the track.

4. Steve at 1470

  • Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on the Radical DSA: ‘Absolutely Funded and Tied to the Chinese Communist Party’
  • Stephen Miller Says CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times and Other Fake News Media Should Be Forced to Register as Democrat PACs: “They’re an Arm of the Democrat Party”
  • FBI Agents Confront Former Dem Congressman Eric Swalwell at Airport and Seize His Electronics, Including His Cell Phone
  • Ukraine’s Ex-Defense Minister Exempted Himself From His Own Assault Contract
  • Don’t Date Someone Who Took the mRNA Jab… That’s Not Shallow, It’s Survival
  • Fauci’s senior advisor pleads guilty to conspiring with others to hide the origins of COVID
  • Study: Fossil fuel emissions act as fertilizer, driving global plant growth surge
  • Home Office hands out pamphlet to educate “asylum seekers” that rape is a crime in the UK
  • Harvard In The Grip Of Barbarians (JH: Not unlike Oxford and Cambridge?)
  • Much more.

3. Sassafrass points out that this is but her opinion


2. DAD at 1470

a) France battles African genital mutilation tradition with slogans. A French awareness campaign warns….

b) French President Emmanuel Macron signs assisted dying** legislation into law. [**Medical assisted suicide.] The Constitutional Council’s ruling will see France join the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, which have already legalised the practice.

c) This German video examines the case of a single African migrant who, after years of legal process, simply cannot be deported, because he has no documents and consistently lies about his country of origin.

d) Five Years of Taliban Despotic Rule. Last week marked the fifth anniversary of the return to power of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, commonly referred to as the Taliban….

e) Scotland’s latest Silent Protest: Airdrie, North Lanarkshire rises.

1. Any idea who these children were?

Thur Mat

 

There are two versions of this at hand … this one had the “cracklier” sound but the better picture, the other the reverse. On the other hand, I’ve had a report that some films are not crossing the ocean well. This might also be so for songs … imagine going to that trouble and some readers across the oceans or our ditch can’t watch them.