slip lyrics directory

[tim]

click on song title, read lyrics.

courtesy of http://www.phrazz.com/slipbase/lyrics/ and numerous contributors.

6 sided
74
a crack in the sundial
airplane/primitive
alsoa
back in fifteen
take a beatle to the badlands
before you were born
chasing rabbit
something learned
cut from the cloth
dear melina
children of december
else
eube
even rats
hey worrier
hoc no seh
holly would
honey melon
if one of us should fall
in life you were an ocean
in your dreams
lemonade
let the morning in
lion on a rock
lonely boy
love and tears
mardi gras song
moral deay
more about me
mudslide
my landlord/paper birds
predicting the rain
reddish moon
river sang to buddah
rollin home
run river run
slow lamnet
softwarmsimplewonder
soft machine
sometimes there's wine
sometimes true to nothing
suffocation keep
the air is the body
the air is the body v2.0
the invocation
the nashua rose
the shouters
the weight of solomon
the woods
through the iron gate
tinderbox
tonight we leave chicago
womb of mother night
you might say

[diesel]

thats some fine work

[ScS]

fyi, tonight we leave chicago has incomplete lyrics.

i posted more lyrics but they aren't exact and may be incomplete.

nice work indeed, tim.

[ScS]

i wish i had more time, otherwise i would try to listen to old george and copy down the lyrics. i notice that it is not included on the list here.

a good place to transcribe them might be from the version up on the myspace page.

[Phrazz]

Slipsongs: Canonical list of titles for all Slip originals.

Old and new skoolers alike have had a hand in recording and archiving a huge, diverse and dynamic repertoire of musical Slip originals. Some of these songs are rare classics, others are widely popular new songs, many in the regular rotation. Sometimes if you're exceptionally lucky you'll have a song named after you or even get to name a song! How cool is that?

While digging through some vault tapes, Cleantone recently reworked the list for name fixes and added a bunch of new masterpieces as well as ancient rarities. This was overchecked by Jon Bahr and myself, many others in the Contributors list definitely helped clear up title confusion, grammar, as well as origination and evolution.

fka/aka notes help illustrate better. Many songs have complicated histories of both name and lyrics changes, as BAM experiments and tapers take the liberty of naming tunes that have no names. Sometimes they stick, othertimes the titles just seem to evolve, or by consensus. It's really the most dynamic song-naming situation around.

Alright, enough preamble. Here's the "Canonical List" for reference, so please make adjustments as you see fit and remember the Slip Covers are a whole different monstrosity altogether.

-Phrazz


6-Sided
74
A Crack in the Sundial
Air is the Body
A Logical Path
Allegre Mateen
Alsoa
Ambrosia
Ambrosia Drunk
Antiquity
Aptos
Ashland
Autobody Experience
Back in 15 Minutes
Band on the Radio
B(e) Flat, Head
(Take A) Beetle to the Badlands
Blues 102
Blues for KD
Camp Shuey
Catacea
Chasing Rabbits
Children of Atlantis
Cintra, The
Clap, The
Chasing Rabbits
Children of December [fka The Zeroes, December's Children]
Clementine
Co-op City
Cowboy Up
Crazy Heels
Crumbed
Cumulus
Cut from the Cloth [fka Come Over]
Dear Milena
Dispossesed
Dixie Thumbtack
Django's Mangos
Dogs on Bikes [fka Tope]
Don't Foil the Mohel
Don't Paint the Devil On the Wall
Dreams
Drivin'
Driving Backwards With You
Dusk to Dawn
Earth will Consume and Dissever You after These Messages, The (aka TEWCADYATM)
Eggs Benson
Entering Saugus [fka Enter Saugus]
Ernie Mickey (Volunteer of the Week)
Eube [fka Ruby]
Even Rats
Evil Cerebral
Evil Chase Music
Fear of Falling
Field No Further
Flight of the Peruvian Dragonfly
Flood of Joyful Existence Waters
From the Gecko
Fungi Mama [fka Da Fungi Got Your Mama]
Gemini (Kingdom of Light)
Generation What?
Get Me with Fuji
Gilberto Gil [fka Mass to DC]
Gypsy Queen
Hallway
Happy Snails
Headshot
Hey Worrier
Highlands, The
Honey Melon
Horseshoe Crab
Hoc No Seh
Hunny
If One of Us Should Fall
In Life You Were an Ocean (In Death You Are the Rain)
Invocation
In Your Dreams
Island of Peace, The
Joe Higley
Johnny's Tune
Julia's Kitchen
Jumby
Kick Samba
Kid Nikki
Lazilee
Lemonade
Let the Morning In
Lion on a Rock
Lonely Boy
Love and Tears
Lots of Socks (fka Lotsa Sox)
Lucky Dragon, The
Mahna Mahna
Marc's Little Delay Box
Mary, Mary Shelley
Memories of You
Metroplatypus
Moderate Threat
Monk on the Run
Moral Decay
More About Me
More Intense Surveillance
Mr. Meowskers
Mudslide
Muffin Number Five
Munf
My Room
Nasty Chicken Fucking Pizza
Nashua Rose
Nebulus
Nellie Jean
No Qualms
OooOooO
Old George
Paint Cans
Pancake Song
Paper Birds (fka My Landlord)
Phase One
Pictures of Callisto
Planet of Inexperience
Poor Boy
Prayer Chant
Predicting the Rain
Proud
Pundeya-mo
Rainmaker
Rasberry Jam
Reddish Moon
Rhythm and Gold
River Sang to Buddha
Rodge and Re-Run
Run Run River Run
Sandman
S'Debatable
Sealegs
Secretary's Day
Sentinel, The
Seranetta
Shouters, The
So Dope
Social, The
Soft Machine
Soft Warm Simple Wonder
Something Learned
Something's Gotta Be Rearranged
Sometimes True to Nothing
Sometimes There's Wine
Sorry
Song (fka Song of Mysterious Origin)
Spice Groove
Steel Drum Zion
Suffocation Keep
Tell it to You
Tempus Forget It
Tenfold
Through the Iron Gate
Tinderbox
Tohu Bohu
Tonight We Leave Chicago
Tope
Torque
Trane-ing
Tune in 7 (Satyricon)
Wave
Weight of Solomon (The)
When Cloudy Hushes Moon
Who the Hell is This Guy?
Witch in the Kitchen
Wolof
Wompset
Woods, The
Yaki Soba
Yellow Medicine
You'll Find A Home
You Might Say
Yo Yo Ma Little Brown-eyed Babushka
Zion

[etahn]

So here's my adjustments/suggestions (accept, reject, criticize as you will).

Air is the Body = "The Air, the Body" (so named on Live at Lupo's
Antiquity - AKA/FKA "Back Door Roast Beef"
Field No Further = "The Field, No Further"
Gilberto Gil - Is a tune loosely based on a song by Gilberto Gil, but I'd ask the boys for a name
Memories of You - may have only been played by Brad solo (does this count?)
Nebulus - isn't this just a slow Cumulus?
Paint Cans - should definitely have been named "Duck Sauce"

Question - What's up with "Ceremony of the Gecko"? I mean, there's a Gecko (the evil nasty thing where Andrew plays three with his right hand and seven with everything else), and there's Zion ("I will be higher then..."), but then there's this big floaty part in between (where Brad lies on his back), and is the floaty part part of Gecko? I've heard Gecko without it. And I've heard the phrase "Ceremony of the Gecko", but WTF is it?

[Cleantone]

Antiquity - AKA/FKA "Back Door Roast Beef"

As far as I know the band never endorsed that title. I recal a recording in which Booty yells that out as the band explains the song is untitled. BAM responds by saying they don't like that title.

The band probably hadn't endorsed a fair amount of these titles though.

[etahn]

so maybe it's 'BKA' (Booty Known As) BDRB?

[Phrazz]

Ok, then let's add your new acronyms:

AKA: Also Known As
BKA: Booty Known As
FKA: Formerly Known As
SKA: Sometimes Known As
SBKA: Should Be Known As
WL2BKA: Would Like to Be Known As

...that will help get the song names straight over time. [any others?]

I made the changes, as suggested.

The ", The" at the end gets weird with "The Air, The Body".

Should that be, "Air, The Body, The"? Way too much strange.

-English is complexifying,

Phrazz

[Dan]

Booth still calls it Back Door Roast Beef, because i asked him about that.

hmmmmmmm


Dan

[tyler]

how about 5 AM/shiver/still shiver/whisper me off to sleep, any ideas on that one?

[ScS]

how about 5 AM/shiver/still shiver/whisper me off to sleep, any ideas on that one?

has brad announced an official title at any of his solo shows for that one?

[Cleantone]

The current official title is Shiver (I'm almost positive). I think I called it 5:00am when I first heard it. I'm no good at titles. I'm pretty sure an instrumental version is gonna be on Brad's record.

[Guest]

Sometimes if you're exceptionally lucky you'll have a song named after you or even get to name a song![/color]

so Phrazz, have you been lucky enough a song named after you? Or have you named a song?

anyone else? i'd love some examples.

[Phrazz]

Phrazz, have you been lucky enough a song named after you? Or have you named a song?

anyone else? i'd love some examples.

Well, there's of course "Get Me with Fuji" that was de facto titled by J. Booth when he asked to have his picture taken when they were all over in Japan (year?). That's the best-known fan-titled song, I think...but there are others. I haven't been so lucky (as far as I know), but when I hear Massachusetts to DC I think of my excursion around the same time (probably just a coincidence).

We could really expand this and add histories to the songs. Anyone want to get this going?