Breakthrough in Group Part 2

Up until we posted Breakthrough in Group, it had been quite awhile since our last post, which is the result of two things: time being at a premium between full time day jobs, kids, yardwork and lives (how modern day rock star is that?!) and, in the ten minutes a day that we have to devote to this, having hugely creative low-tech sessions, mainly involving phone calls/Skyping and jotting down ideas in a notebook, in addition to listening to Top 40 radio stations basically non-stop. Now that we have a plan, we have put pen to paper and written out all of the lyrics and song concepts that have been playing around in our respective heads. Surprisingly, we have ended up with ten songs – 8 that are 70-80% of the way there on the lyrics side and two that are promising draft picks.

The working titles for the eight are:

- Lululemons
- Super Duper Bar Star
- ABC Famous
- Electro
- Mayor of Party Town
- RomCom Nightmare
- Party People
- Nine to Five

The two massively promising draft picks that just need a little more time devoted to them are:

- Day Job
- Stingray

The balance of the lyrics for the 8 will come once we start to really jam them out and record, but we’ve been discussing the vibe and mood of each song and have set a mini-objective within our goal of getting a song on the AT40 –actually starting to record two or three songs and see where we get to. We have set the August 20th objective to have at least two songs fully recorded and mastered (we don’t really understand fully what mastering means, we just know that we need to do it so everything sounds its best and we might have to pay a professional to do it for us). Once we have something that is in any way worth sharing, we’ll post it here for comments/critiques.

Our next step is to try to get the melody and bass line for the two or three set down and then shared amongst the Fools somehow. We are about to get our virtual jam on.