SAW 2009 #23: Natural Disasters by Chris Devine

This one was just a bit of fun, really. Going into it, I just wanted to find an excuse to slap together a bunch of samples and see what would come of it. Didn't know what samples, didn't know what the music should sound like, anything ...

So with a whole bunch of twiddling and poking around in my CD collection for samples that would sound interesting, especially out of context, I came up with this. It should be noted that I was listening to a lot of KLF/JAMs/Timelords this week, gave a cursory reading of the first part of the JAMs' The Manual (fascinating read!) and also listening to Edelweiss's 1989 hit 'Bring Me Edelweiss', a sample-heavy European hit reputedly created by following The Manual's instructions and borrowing the melody for its chorus from ABBA's 'SOS'.

Since there are no actual sung lyrics, here's the musical and spoken word samples (in the order used):

I've got to have your word on this (Leonard Cohen, from The Best of the Columbia Records Radio Hour)
I've been on drugs for 20 years (Consolidated, from Friendly Fa$cism)
I've been on drugs for 20 years

(Ashley MacIsaac fiddle tune -- 'A' part only, twice) (from Fine(tm), Thank You Very Much

Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Consolidated, Tool and Die
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've been on drugs for 20 years
I've got to have your word on this

Using natural disasters (Shawn Colvin, from The Best of the Columbia Records Radio Hour
I've got to have your word on this
Using natural disasters
I've been on drugs for 20 years
I, I, I I I I
I've been on drugs for 20 years
I've got to have your word on this
I've got to have your word on this
I've been on drugs for 20 years
Using natural disasters

Only to feel the music (Consolidated, from Tool and Die
Only to feel the music
Using natural disasters

(Ashley MacIsaac Fiddle tune - 'A' part once, then repeated with each bar reversed)

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.