Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a … - David First

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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

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Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part. . . whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.

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If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.

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The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

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However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

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We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

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Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

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