FAWM: "Are You Ready For War?"

Are You Ready For War?

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Liner Notes

Well, I wasn't sure what to make of this when I was coming up with the arrangement - it was on my list of 'maybe finish it next FAWM' songs, but somehow it got done today.

This was another one of my experiments in programming the guitar - so what you hear up until the enormous fat riff at the end is through Kontakt, then my playing takes over when I needed to a fat riff no computer could possibly handle.

Quick vocal, not going nearly as hard as I should have 'cause I could hear the neighbours at home through the wall. Imagine it's Jaz Coleman in full roar mode, not me in 'please don't bang on the wall and make me embarrassed' mode.

This began as a little idea I'd labelled 'gothy KJ picking, Nov 2023', with an extra note on the spreadsheet that it's specifically Killing Joke circa 1987. As you do.

Drums: SD3 Dark Industrial
Bass: Kontakt Punkbass through Guitar Rig 7
Guitars: Kontakt Electric Sunburst (picking) and my Danelectro '59 (riff) both through Tonex
Synths: FM8, Minimonsta, LUCEifer (Polymoog)
Vocals: Ovox, Echoboy, H-Delay, etc.

#goth #postpunk #indie #synth #rock #epic #grunge

Lyrics

are you ready for war?
war, war
just a little, i said just a little
are you ready for war?
ready for war?
maybe a little
so non-committal
i am not a fighter, curl up and die
a fighter would not curl up and die
not a fighter, curl up and die
a fighter would not curl up and die
just a little, i said just a little
are you ready for war?
maybe a little
so non-committal
i am not a fighter, curl up and die
a fighter would not curl up and
die like man, that's the plan
cut out the damn middleman
die like man, that's the plan
cut out the damn middleman
are you ready for war?
just a little, just a little
i said just a little
non-committal
just put up a fucking fight!
die like man, that's the plan
cut out the damn middleman
cut out the damn middleman
are you ready for war?
are you ready for war?
are you ready for war?
are you ready for war?
are you ready for
are you ready for
are you ready for
war, war, war, war

Comments

@ktanis 15h

Very much enjoyed the vibe of this. Cut out the middle man is an interesting lyric too.

@heuristicsinc 22h

not sure if i approve of using something old in fawm, but i guess it's your fawm, do what you want. good sounds. i especially like the use of echo on the vocals. it all feels very alive.