Hole In My Bucket List
by @johncrossman · @nancyrostMod
Liner Notes
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JC: Nancy and I met up on the second Saturday of fawm, came up with lyrics and some music. Then I dragged my feet and everything else and forgot most of what we came up with except the lyrics. #freshstart! This was a lot of fun, as always and despite myself, and collaborating with Nancy is a treat. What didn't make the cut for your 'bucket list?'
NR: I had this title in my notebook, we brainstormed the lists, and John had the inspiration for the ending. (I never knew he longed to jump out of a plane!) John did the heavy lifting with the arrangement and mixing. This is my first recording with the kalimbatron, a homemade electric percussion board I inherited from Eric Agner, with many thanks to Patti.
JC: baritone guitar, vocals, GB sound effects
NR: drum track, bkgd vox, keys, more keys, kalimbatron sound effects
Lyrics
I’ve got a list of things I always meant to do
Here’s what I intend before my life is through
Go see the pyramids
Stand beneath the Perseids
Meet intelligent galactic life
Drink pina coladas
See Elvis in Nevada
He’ll say “now I pronounce you man and wife”
Sail in a hot-air balloon
See the dark side of the moon
Ride a barrel down Niagara Falls
Write a science fiction novel
Learn to keep time in a bottle
Hike the length of the Great Wall
Heckuva bucket list so far
But there are some holes and here they are:
Make the cut for Dancing with the Stars
Take my helmet off on Mars
Be an Oscar Meyer Weiner on TV (key change!)
Take a polar plunge
Amass a billion thumbs
So everybody’d want a bite of me
Parachute’s on -- they’re opening the door
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 …..
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The modulation is perfect.
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Excellent lyrics again, the doubled vocals work a treat, catchy tune.
Love the Elvis wedding inclusion. 😎
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Love the concept. The list of increasingly outlandish bucket list items had me grinning. Well executed key change, and the ending countdown is *chef's kiss*
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The genre is fun. I enjoyed Nancy's contribution - somewhere between Kate Bush and Kate Pierson in effect.
The key change is unpredictable (despite the heads-up), yet effective.
Is the motif of the hole supposed to extend to the parachute? It would give the song a certain closure. Or perhaps recent events have shifted my Overton window towards morbid.