(I would recommend reading the explanation before listening to the song. Thanks.)
Explanation of “Savory Pork Patty” and the Invention of a Genre
Unbeknownst to me, in early fall of last year I suffered what can only be described as a mental breakdown. When or if I recovered from the breakdown I’m not for sure, but two things happened that will forever change my life. The first thing was I bought a voice recorder, you know, one of those little hand held devices you can use to record your thoughts or a university lecture. Now this isn’t an insane thing to do, at least I don’t think it is, because I had a lot of ideas for songs floating around and I wanted something I could use to record every single song idea I might come up with. Whether this contributed to my temporary insanity I don’t know, but it wasn’t too long before the second thing happened that changed my life: I invented a whole new musical genre. And I called it, “Skoobadeepop.”
The idea behind Skoobadeepop was simple: using a cheap voice recorder, the “musician” can record a vocal melody, sans instrument, that is catchy, repetitive, and short. No verse-chorus-verse bullshit, just one or a few lines with a catchy melody repeated a couple times. Hell, even lyrics were optional. It was a genre that would invite everyone to become involved in writing music. No need to know what key something’s in. No need to know how to sing or play an instrument. If someone can grunt out a decent melody, they can be the best in the genre. It was to be the music of everyday people that can be done by anyone, at any time, with little or no effort needed to put into it. A simple, easy way for everyone, in all walks of life, anywhere to create art. Or at least that’s what I thought at the time.
After recording some twenty Skoobadeepop songs, I barely had nine minutes of music. At that rate I’d have to record about a hundred before I had enough songs to compile the first breakthrough album of a new and important genre. Not to mention that since I came up with most of the songs while I was fixing dinner, the subject matter on most of them were about food (for example, “Bouillabase,” “Ham,” and “Pinky Dijon”). So I abandoned the project and hardly thought about it since. As the months drew on I accumulated quite a few demos of little snippits of songs, some I finished, some I didn’t, but for my own egotistical reasons I wanted to archive all these tracks. After dragging them onto my computer, I would listen to one track while I renamed and tagged the previous song. Then this song came on while I was tagging a track called, “Spicy Beef Taco.” I have Media Player set on a continuous loop and before I could finish tagging “Spicy Beef Taco,” this song was driving me back on the brink. I have to say this is probably the most fucked up song I’ve ever recorded. It seems innocent if you listen to it once, but listening to it over and over can drive you mad. Go on try it. Download this song and set it on a continuous loop and see how long you can last. I had to have been insane when I wrote this. I guess this explains The KFC at Canterbury.
Savory Pork Patty
Savory pork patty
With mash potata, corn
