About Comedy

I think I recorded this somewhere between summer 06 and summer 07.  I might be
entirely wrong though.

Anyhoo - the story of its creation is thus:
I was in the mood for writing some kind of longer melody that lasted more
than one or two quick measures.  I also was in the mood for dorian mode.
So that's the story of the melody played by the guitar.
The verse (music) was created because I needed a verse.  I liked the bass
part I came up with for it, how it was in an odd meter, so it grew from that.
The chorus - I had been studying Leonard Bernstein and how in West Side Story
he used the minor AND major third at the same time, to create an interesting
dissonance.  So I fiddled on the organ a tad and came up with a little riff.
The breakdown - it's a piece of the melody and part of the chorus broken down
and then repeated a bunch - a kind of variation on a motif idea.
The outro/spacy/bassawesomeness - I had been goofing around with hammer-ons
played up high on a bass and decided to record it.  Added crazy effects made
it sound awesome, so I had to include it.
As for the color of this song - instrumentation is pretty straightforward...
a little harmonica played badly... the most fun part was layering the vocals
during the bridge and the last chorus to just give it extra harmonic texture.

And the lyrics...well I was in a mode of explaining certain simple nouns
(comedy, greed, ...I guess just those two songs really...) so - it's a bunch
of examples of humorous events, with a chorus expressing the same thing.

Oh yeah and the intro - just came up with a few guitar chords.  I like how it
sets up the song with a question "why are they all so funny?" - I feel like
you don't hear that in songs too much.

Also, as a whole song, I like the way this one turned out. It feels very coherent
and purposeful, but without being too pedestrian. I still like it. Also, it's
about laughing.